Roan released the other wolf’s neck, but didn’t move away. Both wolves shifted to human form at the same time. Roan rolled his attacker onto his back then cold-cocked him. Unconscious, his attacker went limp. Roan picked him up and carried him over his shoulder. He put the other man in the back of the SUV. He pulled out some rope from the back and hog-tied him. Ansley stood quietly by shaking as she waited for Roan to finish. His attacker taken care of, Roan spun around and hauled Ansley to him in a tight hug. “What were you thinking, Ansley? You could have been seriously hurt. If anything happened to you…” He couldn’t seem to finish his sentence.
“But nothing did.” Roan squeezed her so hard Ansley could barely draw in a deep breath, but she didn’t care. “If you think I would just stand by and let you get hurt you have another thing coming. You’re my mate. I won’t let anyone take the man I love away from me.”
Roan went still. He released her enough so he could pull back and look down at her.
“What was that last part?”
Ansley smiled. “I said I won’t let anyone take the man I love away from me.”
She’d hardly said the last word before Roan kissed her so thoroughly Ansley’s legs almost gave out and she barely remembered her own name. When he lifted his head he said, “If I didn’t have to get rid of this trash,” he nodded to the back of the SUV, “I would haul you up to your apartment and show you how happy you’ve just made me.”
Ansley shivered with pleasure. “What are you going to do with him?”
“He’s one of Miles’ men. I’m going to take him to Roxie. As the ruler of the packs she gets to decide his fate.”
“What will she do to him?”
Roan chuckled. “To start with, he’s going to learn his place. I hope he likes being stuck in his werewolf form while chained up in Roxie’s backyard like the dog he is. If that doesn’t make him inclined to talk, I don’t know what will.”
Ansley bit her bottom lip and looked up at Roan. “Since we’re going to Roxie’s, while we’re there I think I’ll ask her if she has time to use that spell of hers.”
Roan cupped her face in his hands. “Are you sure that is what you want, Ansley? I don’t want you to do it if you’re only doing it for me. I want you to do it because it’s what you want.”
She stood up on tiptoe and brushed her lips across his. “I’m sure. I want us to have the thousands of years together the spell will give us. You’re my mate. I want to be mated to you in every sense of the word.”
As Roan kissed her tenderly, Ansley knew she had made the right decision. No longer would she ever have to worry about being alone. Her wolf would always be by her side.
The End