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I yank on the freezer doors, trying to get them to open, but in
my panic, I realize there is a button on the handle. Jamming my
thumb on it, it clicks open, and I grip the frame, using it to help
pull me to my feet. Turning back, the wolf is covered in blood as
he takes on three rogues at once. After looking around and
finding no exit for him, I call out to him, knowing the freezer
would be secure if we could jam the door closed.
“Hey!” I scream out to him, and he glances back only to be
attacked. He attacks back, mauling the wolf, only for another to
replace it.
He retreats, backing up toward me, and I push the door open. If
he doesn’t hide in here, they will kill him. We can block the door
and wait for help to come. Unable to shift and join the fray, it’s
our only hope.
Not given a choice, he turns the moment he gets a chance and
barrels toward me. I shriek, darting out of his way before.
slamming the door shut the moment he is inside. The wolves hit
the door and nearly toss it open while I push back against them.
“Help me block it!” I shout at the wolf while gripping the handle
and digging my feet into the ground, trying to hold it closed. I
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scream as it pushes inward, my shoulder and arm protesting ast
the door rams back at me; my injuries threatening to make my
whole body collapse. I can’t lock the handle when suddenly, a
body hits it. Likewise, I click the lock in place, only for it to
unlock instantly, and I know one of the rogues has shifted back.
Paws would struggle to manipulate the lock.
“Move!” a man’s voice growls, and I jump back as he slams his
body against it. Hearing the lock click back in place, and then
the handle drops to the ground with a loud clang. I try to catch
my breath, relieved he got it locked, just as my legs give out
from under me.
I clamp my hand over my bleeding thigh, internally cringing at
the way it is ripped open. My consciousness fades and I feel like I
am going to faint as I stare down at my blood–drenched blouse
“Show me,” the man’s deep voice comes as he swats my hands
away, and I look up to see who is the man behind the
mysterious black wolf who saved me. I gasp when I recognize
him to be Alpha Zayn. Looking very handsome but absolutely
exhausted. Plus, he is bare in the flesh with his hands holding
my leg together.
“Why didn’t you shift?” he snaps at me, angrily pulling me from
my shock.
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“I haven’t shifted yet,” I blurt out, and his head snaps up to look
at me.
“You’re under twenty?” he stammers.
I nod, and he appears shocked, pressing his lips in a line. He nods
once before he growls.
,“Avert your gaze, while I find something to cover myself with.”
“Excuse me? I’m nineteen and an adult!” I retort, outraged that
he would call me such a name.
“Yes, exactly. You’re unshifted. Unmated wolves aren’t
supposed to be bare around the unshifted she–wolves. You
won’t get your wolf until you’re twenty. Therefore, you’re still a
pup!” he retorts.
“Shut up!” I growl at him.
“Was that a purr?” he mocks. I glare at him, but he holds my
gaze.
“Look away so that I can stand.”
I roll my eyes but look away. His logic makes no sense. I am the legal age to drink, an adult according to the law. Just technically
not according to werewolf society, apparently.
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“Wouldn’t be the first man I have seen without clothes on,” I
mutter.
“You’re not pure?” he growls menacingly, responding quickly.
My face heats. “I mean, I have seen men bare when they shift
before.” I’m certainly not going to be discussing my barely there
intimate life with an Alpha I hardly know. Especially one who
knows my father.
“Good, so you are pure,” he snarls.
Why does he care? I think bitterly.
“I never said that either,” I quip, and he growls. Not that he
needed to know that I am, in fact, still pure. It just irritates me
that he is so nosey and prying into my life.
“Well, are you or not?” he demands, and I look at him to find
him covering himself with a meat bag. Seems fitting, I chuckle,
staring at it.
“Aren’t there more important things to discuss?” I taunt. “Like
for example my bleeding leg.” I grunt, remembering the pain.
“Answer me!” He glares at me.
“Why does it matter?” I shoot back. He looks away, and I watch
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as he clenches his teeth. “Are you pure?” I ask in a mocking tone.
“That’s none of your business!”
“Yet my first time is yours?” I retort, raising an eyebrow.
“Do I look like pure?” he snaps. My eyes roam over him. The
man is sheer muscle and flesh, each part of him sculpted.
perfectly, right down to his…
“You look like a man who has his meat in a sausage bag,” I
snicker, trying to keep the mood light and the pain away. He
doesn’t find my joke funny. Instead, he stares blankly at me.
“Fine, no, you don’t look like pure, although I wouldn’t be
surprised if you were with your attitude,” I snap at him.
“Do you have a boyfriend?” he asks, and I sigh, rubbing my
temples. I can already feel a headache coming on.
“What’s with the millions of questions? We may die in a freezer
together, but that doesn’t mean I need to reveal my entire life to
you?” I remind him, and he sighs.
“Just answer the question,” he growls.
“Kinda,” I tell him. No! Why would I tell him that? What if he
tells my father? “But, please don’t tell my father. He’ll bloody kill
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me! I told him Deacon is just a friend,” I blurt like an idiot. The
last thing I want is for Deacon to get in trouble because we
fooled around.
The Alpha growls but says nothing else on the matter and
instead tries to stem the bleeding on my leg when I suddenly
hear a loud crack. The Alpha looks up at the ceiling, and so do I.
Seconds later, we hear a crash, and the freezer we are hiding in
shakes.
“Please tell me that wasn’t the roof caving in,” I mutter.
“That wasn’t the roof,” he says in a low voice, “That’s the
ground.”
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“What!?” I exclaim, shock overtaking me.
He rolls his eyes, clearly unimpressed. As the truth sinks in, I
smack his shoulder, irritation flaring. He chuckles.
“So, have you got a girlfriend then?” I ask. I’m here and who
knows what’s going on outside, might as well pass the time.
“Not anymore; I broke up with her today,” he states matter–of-
factly.
“Today? No wonder you were in such a bad mood at the Alpha
meeting if she dumped you,” I mutter.
“I broke up with her!” he protests, sounding less like a suave,
imposing Alpha and more like a teenage boy.
I raise an eyebrow at him. “Really? Is that why you’re so bottom
hurt?” I tease.
“I’m not hurt. I dumped her during the meeting, and I was in a bad mood because your father is a prick,” he states.
“Wow, you broke up with your girlfriend via text. You really are bad!” I tell him, and he shrugs.
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“She’ll find her mate eventually. It wouldn’t have lasted
anyway,” he tells me.
“Wait, you just dumped her for no reason?”
“I have my reasons, none that you need to know about,” he tells
- me. I roll my eyes at him.
“Did she cheat?” I ask.
“What? No, of course not,” he growls. Alpha Zayn gets up,
wanders to the door, and unlocks it. When he yanks on the
door, it doesn’t budge.
“Great, now I am locked in here with you,” I curse as he
examines the door. He swears, looking up, and I see that the
door frame has been bent, locking the door in place. The Alpha
peers over his shoulder and glares at me.
“Sure, say it like it’s my fault, you’re not the only one trapped in
here!” he growls.
“Yes, but you can adapt to the cold, I can’t!” I retort, and he turns.
to look at me.
He curses, turning back to try to find a way out.
My breath fogs the freezing air as I shiver, glaring at Alpha
