The Pack Girl's Retribution (Sequel to The Pack's Girl)

My Challenges

He stalked across the camp and caught my arm. Pulling me from the doorway.

The two females behind me emerged on weak legs. Shielding their faces from the light.

One tripped, but when she would've fell, Jonathan took two quick steps and caught her. Steadying her gently against the wall.

Don't touch her!

I wanted to scream. Feeling increasingly protective under the mating moon. But one look at him, and I realized he wasn't even seeing a she-wolf.

In his mind, he's helping rescue his sister.

I felt myself soften immediately. Refocusing my attention on the angry man pulling me, like a pup on a leash.

"Vanquish. Vanquish!" I tugged him to a stop.

He rounded on me. His face flushed in anger and his chest heaving. "What the hell are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking that I'm the best distraction out here, right now."

"Is there no thought for your own safety?"

"There is."

"It certainly doesn't seem like it! You're going to get your fool self, killed, Vanna Rae."

"I'm not." I put my hand over his. Gripping my forearm so hard it hurt. "Not if you're with me."

"I'm not going to go watch you commit suicide. I don't think you get it."

"I know what I need to do, Vanquish. I'm trying to save our kind from those that would kill and torment them."

"You are one wolf." He snapped. Nearly shaking with rage.

"But I am a Gallions."

"You're also a Hayden. Or were you so quick to forget that?"

"I am both. Why do you keep fighting me?"

"Because if you die, I'm as good as dead."

I deflated. Utterly lost my air at his impassioned words. "What do you mean?"

"I wasn't alive before you Vanna Rae. I love you. And I know you. I understand you better than anyone. But sometimes you're so self-absorbed in where your fate is taking you that you fail to see what's in-front of you."

"You're in-front of me." I said softly. Trying to be understanding though I felt a bit wounded by his harsh words.

"Yes, and I have been. I saw you in the woods. I felt you coming through them and took my brothers out to find you. Hunter fed you and Racer chased you to the wall. But I coordinated all of it. I'm always coordinating everything in this little pack of ours. To keep all of us safe. I knew that Draven would have you exiled from the pack if you weren't seen with other wolves, if you didn't eat. So, I made you come out with us. We knew what was under that cloak, we'd seen you before you came into the wall. We just played your little game as long as we could. And when I scented your desire for us, I knew..."

I was taken aback by that confession.

"But in all this time, you've never bothered to learn why we ended up here. Or what our lives were."

I blinked at him in shock. "You're right."

I had never asked.

They were all so dominant and they'd made it clear I was theirs without really giving me a choice that at first, I hadn't cared to know about them. But as time passed, I realized how much they meant to me. How I couldn't bear the idea of anything happen to them.