Ravaged Wolf

Chapter 38

"Tell me!" My voice comes out a shrill as Dmitri stays silent.

He walks around the box containing the dead embryo and approaches me, but I take a couple steps back and he sighs.

"It's a long story, angel."

"Well...start from the beginning." I fold my arms with a frown.

I didn't want my thoughts going away with me, jumping to various conclusions and making both my wolf and I go crazy.

"Before I met you for the very first time, I was involved with somebody else, thinking that after being bitten by a vampire I wouldn't have a mate."

Taking deep breaths, I glance back down at the box and Dmitri follows my gaze as I mentally beg him to answer my unspoken question.

"That isn't mine." He murmurs eventually.

Dmitri takes further steps towards me and growls when I back up again, not wanting the proximity to detract away from the situation at hand; one touch from him and everything stops.

"I was with her to pass the time but I don't think she was on the same wavelength. When I found you, I cut her off...much to her disdain." He frowns more to himself than me.

"So who is this person who sent this, is it her?"

My mind races at the thought of a woman planning my parents' death and the rogue attacks just to get back at my mate for leaving her, making me all the more furious at her and Dmitri.

"She's dead, her mate is the one behind all of this."

My eyes bulge and my jaw drops.

"I didn't know she had one until I found out she killed herself." Dmitri rushes, noticing my less than impressed face and further walking towards me.

"Don't run from me... are you jealous?" He brings me towards him, his hands around my waist as I lean into him.

Leaning back, I frown but say nothing.

"You are." Dmitri's brows narrow slightly but I see a hint of a smile on his lips.

"This isn't funny!" I shove him and he lets go of me.

My wolf growls possessively and I try to ignore the sudden growing urge to shift. Dmitri sobers up and frowns again, letting out a small sigh before starting up again.

"I found that she was pregnant with her mate's child when she killed herself; now he wants revenge for the death of what could've been his."

A large lump forms in my throat as Dmitri's eyes darken and an expression of desolation forms on his face.

"You feel at fault." I state the obvious.

After the death of his family and pack, another death would just add fuel to the fire; this guy who wanted revenge knew this too.

"How can I not be, if I didn't get involved then this wouldn't have happened but there is no way I'm going to let Nicholas touch you." Dmitri suddenly grabs both my arms in a vice like grip as if the very action would protect me from any harm.

"What if he comes for you or the rest of the pack instead?" I mutter, looking down at my fingers nervously interlocked with each other.

"We can take care of ourselves fine, I'm not called the Mad Alpha for no reason, angel."

The very mention of that title made me skitterish, wondering how mad he really could get.

"Let me take you out tonight, before your brother comes and takes your attention away from me." Dmitri suggests.