Free His Perfect Wolf (Mystic Wolves Book 2) by Elle Boon Page A

hurting so bad right now, I’m aching.” He placed her hand over his bulge.
Every part of his being was tense with a hu nger
unlike anything he’d ever experienced in his entire thirty-seven years. Not
even when he’d been with Emma.
    He shook off thoughts
of his truemate. The need to stake his claim on the woman in front of him
overrode everything else. He bent, taking her li ps in
a hard kiss. There was a primitive quality to it, but there was nothing he
could do to change how he felt.
    Not giving her a
chance to respond, he lifted his head and walked out of the room.
    The sound of the
shower coming on gave him the chance to check in with
his pack. His first call was to Zayn and Jett.
    “I need to make this quick boys. You got any news for me?”
Niall asked.
    “How’s your girl?”
Zayn asked.
    “Her name’s Alaina, and she’s great.” Pride rang in his
voice.
    Jett cleared his voice
over t he line. “I noticed you were pretty acquainted
with the young lady. What’s your plans, boss?”
    “You got something to
say, Jett?” Niall kept his voice low, his hackles raised at Jett’s question.
    “She doesn’t seem like
one of the chicks from the club is all I ’m saying,
and there is something familiar about her. I’m not pressing in on your
territory, Alpha, I’m just saying don’t play around with her. I could see the
innocence written all over her face, if not her body, anymore.”
    Niall growled, his
blood boiling . Chaos erupted inside his mind at the
thought of his pack mate interfering with what he considered his.
    Reminding himself that
this was Jett, his best friend, Niall took a deep breath. “I’m not playing shit
with her. I’ve never felt anything like I feel f or
Alaina, not even with Emma. It confuses and pisses me off, but it excites me
too. Now, that is the end of my sex life that you need to know. I appreciate
you thinking about Alaina, but she’s my concern, not yours.”
    “Don’t fuck up the way
I almost did, b ro. That’s my advice to you,” Zayn
said.
    Jett laughed. “Nobody
can fuck up the way you did. Besides, Ny is the smartest one of us. I just…you didn’t even notice I was there until I
was almost on top of you. I purposefully stepped on that branch, you know. What if I’d been one of the rogues?”
    Shit. He’d been so consumed with getting
inside Alaina, and then once he was, everything around them ceased to exist.
He’d never had a problem putting the pack and their welfare before anything
else, except Nolan. His s on would always come first.
    He lowered his chin to
his chest. “Fuck, I don’t even know what to say, except I was out of my mind.”
    “Do you remember what
you said to me when we had our talk ?” Zayn asked.
    Niall waited, knowing
Zayn would eventually get to his point.
    “You said the greatest
feeling in the world was being locked inside your mate, and you were right.
When I’m with Cora, the world could melt away and I wouldn’t even notice.”
    “I wasn’t locked
inside her. She’s not my mate.” He didn’t say the word, y et. His plans for the weekend were to woo her, show her how
good it could be between them. After he made her fall in love with him, he’d
tell her about shifters, and hope she wanted to be one. If not, he’d be talking
with Payton and having her do some fey magic.
Alaina would walk away from the weekend with a memory of them having a brief
affair, while he feared she’d take a piece of him with her.
    “Whatever you say, Ny .” Zayn laughed.
    Clenching his hand,
Niall gave them both a few instructions and told them he’d
see them at Chaps. The shower had shut off a few minutes earlier, and he was
impatient to get to Alaina. He went into one of the guest suites and took a
quick shower, washing off the dust and dirt from his climb down the cliff. He
got a cold chill thi nking how close she came to
death, and how lucky she was to have made it out relatively unscathed.
    By the time he entered
his bedroom, she was