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.He watchedas his mate froze his motions and felt fear course throughhis veins.57Tate Pack SeriesHis mate wouldn t hurt him right? Right.In all ofthe dreams that he d been having about Howell he d neveronce gotten the feeling that his mate was dangerous.Notonce.Well okay& not violent towards him.That whole, being an Alpha thing pretty muchguaranteed that Howell could rip another shifter apart if hefelt that he really had to.Michael could only hope thatbeing hit in the back of the head with a pillow didn twarrant a need for his mate to be violent.I would never hurt you Michael.I hope you knowthat, he heard Howell sigh through their link.Look there sa lot about my family, my past, my whole fucking historythat you don t know& and I m going to tell you everything,I promise.But you know, this whole shifter, mates, thingisn t really conducive to getting to know each other first.SoI m going to need you to give me a little bit of time to getmy head together.Just know if I tell you we need to gosomewhere, then, we need to go somewhere and I need toget back to Wichita Falls.As soon as possible.Michael could feel his mate s dark emotionspressing against him and he gasped and clutched thecoverlet as the anger, grief, despair, hopelessness, fearand& revenge all rolled over him.Why the hell was hismate seeking revenge? Against who? For what? What theholy fucking hell was going on?I get that Howl, I do.But I need something morethan just you need to go back to Wichita Falls.I can t just58Vicktor Alexander/Unassumeduproot my life here; leave my job, my home, my sister,because you want me too.Look at this from my point ofview, please? I want to be with you.You re my mate.I wasmade to be with you, but I m the one being asked, orrather, told, to move and you re not even asking me if I mokay with it or if I m afraid or hell, even if I like Texas.This is a partnership.You re just as much my mate as I amyours.Michael waited for Howell s response with baitedbreath.It was the longest tirade that he d ever givenanyone.Usually sticking with his patented kiss my toe andsuck my ass jab whenever someone was being a completeass to him.He knew that Howell wasn t doing itdeliberately.He also knew that if he didn t stop the manfrom doing it now, he would spend the rest of his life beingcontrolled by someone else.He d spent enough time in someone else s clutches.His father Alfred Prosace was the asshole of every wolfpack, past, present and future.He d raised and trained hischildren to act and behave a certain way.Michael hadconformed for a time but finally decided to live his life onhis terms.He loved his freedom.He adored hisindependence.He wasn t going to give that up for anyone.Not even his mate.He ran the fingers of his right hand through his hairas Howell continued to sit facing away from him, notspeaking and no longer moving.He didn t know what wasgoing on with his mate, but if he agreed to go with the otherman to a place that sounded a lot like  Witches All FallTexas, then he was going to make sure that his curiositywas satisfied to a certain degree.59Tate Pack SeriesHe reached forward and lightly touched Howell sshoulder and felt the moment when his man relaxed.Thiswas what he wanted.What he needed.He needed forHowell to relax, to calm down, and to tell him what hadhappened only thirty minutes before to cause such areaction in him.He had an ache in his stomach, one that lethim know that he probably wasn t going to like what hismate was going to tell him, but whatever he was told heknew it would be something he needed to hear.When the last of the tension left Howell s frame,Michael shuffled forward on his knees, the embroideredleaves on the coverlet scratching and upbraiding the skin ashe made his way closer to his mate.He sat behind thegrieving man and wrapped his arms around him.Oh man,the anger and grief that surrounded his mate was makinghim ill [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]