The Mighty She-wolf of King novel Chapter 11

From the crowd a boy, in his mid-teens, ran straight down the middle of the crowd, making his way to the front. Eric watched the boy. The smell was coming from him.

No, thought Eric. It couldn't have been, there was no way that boy was his mate.

Eric took a deep breath, no the doy was not his mate but he smelled like Eric's mate. The boy smelled of pine trees, which was not a rare scent among their kind. It was quite common. But that lovely smell of Eric's mate was all over him.

Eric made a fist with both his hands and kept them to his side. He couldn't believe that his mate, would not save herself for him but give herself to a pup like him.

He wanted to kill the boy.

"Ross," Eric looked at the Alpha beside him, then looked at the boy. Was Ross not the name Beta Blake had said last night. "Where is your sister?" Alpha Seth asked.

"Behind you," the boy replied.

It took Eric a few seconds for him to realize someone had snuck up on him. Turning around, Eric found Beta Blake picking her ear with her pinky finger, lazily.

"I have to say, either you suck, or I'm just getting that good at sneaking up on people."

"How?" Dolph whispered.

How indeed, Eric wanted to say.

Tilting her head, Blake smiled, "Missed me."

For a moment Eric wanted to say yes. She was stunning without all that blood on her skin. And her scent, she smelled like vanilla, coffee and woodsy. It was just the perfect blend for him that he just wanted to roll himself in it forever.

"Blake, your late," Alpha Seth scolded.

"Ross and I had a brother/sister moment this morning. Cut us a little break will you," She looked out into the crowd. "So this is what I have to work with."

A thick circle quickly formed the small training hall leaving Beta Blake and the male wolf in the middle of it. Eric, Dolph, and Alpha Seth walked into the circle to get a good view of the fight that was about to begin.

"Are you ready?" Beta Blake yelled at the male wolf. "There are no rules to this fight. So use any means necessary to take me down, if not-" she paused for a moment too long before sending shivers down everyone's back, "you will die."

Blake could hear Seth growl from the distance. Clearly, he didn't hear her bluff about killing the other male. It wasn't like she was going to kill him. Or would she?

"Are you ready to die?" Blake called out.

The male before her crouched low like he was about to tackle her. His feet were wide apart and his arms out open.

Blake didn't know if she should laugh or tell the male to stop fulling around. Instead, Blake stood her ground and watched his movements.

What was he thinking? Was he trying to full her with that ridiculous pose? Or did he not know how to fight but that would be ludicrous, all wolves knew how to fight but he looked like he wanted to give her a big bear hug.