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suddenly jolted up and clawed viciously
at him, demanding to be let out.
    He had charged out of his
house as a great white wolf, and stood on the top of his front steps
and howled.
    His pack responded to their
Alpha's call almost immediately. Down the entire street, wolf howls
sounded from the houses and a minute later, white wolves burst from
the front doors of the houses and ran to meet their Alpha.
    The Snow River pack followed
their Alpha out of Misty Valley, running down the empty highway.
Declan directed his wolves into the forest flanking the highway, and
the white wolves moved swiftly and silently through the trees. In
wolf form, he could scent her.
    She was near, so near
Misty Valley. His wolf knew exactly where his female was, and when
the scent of her fear hit him, he exploded in rage. His female was
scared, and she was hurt. He heard gunshots, and he smelled her
blood.
    And then he saw the Red
Fangs pack swarming around a battered green car. He saw the Alpha of
the Red Fangs, Rhett, clawing through the broken windscreen to reach
the frightened female in the car. And he saw Logan, Rhett's
second-in-command, lunge at the human woman.
    Just as she screamed,
Declan threw himself at Rhett and Logan, knocking the two red wolves
away from the terrified woman. He would have killed Rhett, tore out
the red wolf's throat and snapped its neck, if he hadn't sucked in a
lungful of her scent at that exact moment.
    Her scent, her all too human
scent, hit him like a locomotive. Declan reeled back, and by the
time he shook himself and cleared his head and vision, Rhett had made
his escape. Declan wanted to give chase, but he couldn't leave her.
She was human, a vulnerable, fragile human, and she was—his
mate. She wasn't just his female. Alpha wolves could have many
females. She. Was. His. Mate. His one and only.
    Declan howled a command to
his wolves to chase the red wolves off, and make sure they didn't
circle back to attack the human woman in the car. The red wolves had
fled, with his pack hot on their heels. He was left alone with a
frightened, bleeding human woman. A woman who was his fated mate.
    Declan never expected that
his fated mate would be human. And after what she had just gone
through, he thought that she would be scared of him. Instead, she
trusted him with her life. She settled her soft, curvy body on his
back and wrapped her arms around his neck.
    Declan had to resist the
urge to howl with pride as he carried her to Misty Valley. He had
kept watch outside her hotel the whole night, but he made sure that
he was well hidden by the shadows. He didn't want to spook her.
    And now, she was walking
shyly beside him, her shoulder brushing softly against his arm.
    “Thank you,” she
said suddenly, making him jerk.
    Declan turned to see Mina
smiling as she slid her hand into the crook of his arm. “It
was you. That big white wolf. I knew I'd recognize you,” she
said, looking up into his eyes.
    He swallowed. Do you
recognize me as your mate?
    She smiled, visibly relaxing
as she walked beside him. “Misty Valley is lovely,” she
said, looking into the windows of the shops and cafes, and sniffing
at the wonderful aroma of freshly baked bread as they passed a few
bakeries. “Thank you for getting my car. That was...really
sweet. I'll pay the company back. I owe you...”
    Declan shook his head. “You
owe me nothing.”
    “But...”
    “We take care of
our...staff.”
    Mina frowned, then stiffened
when she realized that they were walking arm in arm. “Oh, I'm
sorry! I just did it unconsciously. What was I thinking? I didn't
realize...I didn't mean to be so familiar...that's inappropriate, Mr
Grant...” she stammered, pulling her hand away.
    Declan grabbed her wrist and
tucked her hand right back where it belonged. In his pants. No,
hand! In his hand, that's where. They would walk hand in hand, not
hand in pants.
    Declan took a sharp breath,
feeling as if his pants had suddenly shrunk. His pants felt a little
too