Page 395 of Pucking Feral: Part Two

How did he even get here?

This fucking alpha.

"Go back inside, Valek."

He pushes off the wall and crosses the hall to me, stopping right in front of me. Significantly closer than the situation requires.

"Everything is going to be fine," he says. "Wraith will mark her. She's already planned for it. That's why she layered our marks first. The scar tissue is thicker now. Her plan is sound."

"Her plan assumes his jaw pressure stays controlled during a bonding bite, and his nerves are fried."

"Plague," he sighs wearily.

"And the BioMuzzle is too new to know how it interacts with bonding hormones. There are no studies, none, I've been checking.

"Plague…"

"Valek. If he can't mark her by the deadline, I will watch this entire pack and our team get torn apart because of a deadline some bureaucrat⁠—"

He kisses me.

Gloved hand at my jaw, shoulder pads crowding me back against the concrete, and the rest of the sentence dies in my mouth. He takes his time about it, thorough and unhurried, like we aren't losing and the second intermission buzzer isn't going to sound any minute.

He pulls back an inch, leaving me pathetically breathless.

Valek grins at me, silver eyes bright, thumb still resting against my jaw.

"Are you finished spiraling?"

I'm going to kill him.

Right after we lose this game.

Chapter 82

Whiskey

"I'VE GOT HER! I'VE GOT THE CAT!"

I barrel through the back door of the pack house, arms outstretched, a writhing bundle of fury wrapped in my shredded flannel shirt clutched to my chest.

Shadow is not happy about this.

She's hissing like a tiny demon, her good paw swiping at every gap in the fabric, and I'm bleeding like crazy. But who gives a shit?

I.

CAUGHT.

THE.

CAT.

"Whiskey, what the fuck—" Thane starts, then stops short when he sees the blood dripping down my forearms and the mini chainsaw marks all over my bare chest.

"I GOT HER, BRO!"

Plague is already crossing the kitchen, his face both horrified and resigned, which is honestly my favorite of his expressions because it always means someone has done something awesome.