Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 13

We’d been on the road for hours. My mate was a little consumed in getting home.

This was one of the only times I had left my pack so I had hoped to see something along the way but I was content with watching the states pass by as we drove.

Right now I think we were somewhere in Illinois believe. I wasn’t entirely sure.

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I had been listening to music on my phone as Grayson called his Delta Aarron Hokk.

I did my best not to listen in but when you hear the word attack.

“Any more attacks?” He spoke to his delta.

*Attacks? He kept that a convenient little secret from my family.

*No, no. He was dealing with something and he had said so. He’s my mate! *

I felt that war of trust played on within me. It was natural to want to believe every word he spoke. I wanted to have the certainty that he had every good reason to keep things from me. Then there was the other side. How could I trust him when he had given me no reason to? Why had he not been as open with me as I was with him? He had kept things from me including himself. I want to believe him. It felt like I should but I couldn’t, no sensible person would.

I listened in further pretending to keep my music going. There had been some form of attack that was personal Grayson had handled and it appeared to be dealt with. There was nothing and it was a sigma that had attacked.

Sigmas have no place in a pack; they exist outside of their pack’s community and rules. If it was a sigma that meant he’d acted alone. His pack hadn’t even acknowledged it.

“He’d had a reason. *

I looked out of the window and noticed we were getting off of the interstate.

“Are we stopping?”

“I’m not cruel enough to make you sleep in a car,” Grayson grunted as he typed on his laptop.

“Who said you were cruel?”

No reply came to me. Of course, I knew he had thought me haughty and dramatic after I demanded he come to my house

for dinner. Perhaps he shouldn’t detach himself to the point where I break.

We stayed in Chicago that night. This may sound crazy, but I had never seen a city like this. 2

Packs were always in more rural places so that we could run and transform without the humans trying to pry into our lives.

I’m sure humans thought our societies were very separate and different. If they only knew how good wolves were at trade and devolving wares, skills, and produce.

Seeing the skyscrapers and the people walking busy so engrossed in their issues they didn’t notice the people passing them by.

There were glittering shops with beautiful gowns and fluffy couches in the windows. One shop had nothing but diamonds in it and my jaw dropped.

mine for things like that or develop ways to make them. Those packs control a lot of the market and

had to hold on to screams a couple of times at the drivers getting so close and

car. The smoke and smog clouded the sky. I had been told

appeared shining but so many people with so many

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car pulled into a build and I gasped helpless unaware

didn’t look over at Grayson not wanting to see his annoyance at

in a specialty parking spot and

out of the driver’s seat and opened my door for

smiled at him, stepping into the cold garage. “Thank

opening your

feeling he wasn’t

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“Just like Grayson.

as Matt parked the second car and Ella got out of it

Car rides are so boring,” Ella

reply that I was happy to see her but Matt and Grayson

should be

and hasn’t yet stepped foot on ours; she’s vulnerable so she’ll stay by Brian and mine’s side,” Grayson

he was intent on keeping me

ready for

I was seriously

hotel restaurant, it’s a Brazilian steakhouse.

that exact moment, my stomach growled like a bear. I blushed and looked away, so

I

been looking forward to this

arms.

to get something out of the car

thought I wouldn’t notice but my mate had

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front of you, you annoying pig–headed frustrating man!

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beautiful white satin top with a deep v back that was lace lined would do. Then I grabbed some

being slightly over–organized. What some

strutting

clothes for the evening in

angry…no you know what

UGH!!!

and huge chandeliers and mahogany

and beautiful. I felt like I was dreaming. Grayson walked ahead and got us

room.

in all hell am I with?

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floor. The guest rooms are on the bottom floor with

the balcony was nothing but glass. To say I was at a loss for words was an

living room. I looked