Chapter 13: Jeremy Stanton vs. Ryan Hicks Feral attraction in the midst of hatred… The chase!

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Jeremy watched as a change came over his mate. Ryan was trembling so much it was almost as if he was having a seizure. Tears began to slide down his cheeks. Jeremy watched Ryan’s fists clench at his sides as he took a little step towards him. Unconsciously, Jeremy took a step back. For the first time in his life, Alpha Jeremy Stanton had some fear…though slightly…in the presence of a lesser wolf.

“I’ve tolerated all your shit.” Ryan began shakily. “I thought you had it in for me because I trespassed on your land but I’m beginning to think you probably think I’ve done something even worse. Why else would you treat me as cruelly as this? What is it you think I’ve done exactly? Killed someone? Huh? You’ve bitten me, thrown me into a cage, turned me into something that I didn’t even know was real, humiliated me, and held me in your house against my will. As if that wasn’t enough, you took away my will and subjected me to a brutal fuck in the arse even though I’ve never ever had sex with another person in my life.” Ryan tilted his head, the tears streaming down in torrents.

“Ryan?” Jeremy breathed cautiously as he watched Ryan begin to slowly transform but it was as if Ryan couldn’t even hear him.

“Now you have the nerve to call me a freak? Tell me in all honesty, please. Between you and I, who is the bigger freak? Someone who is capable of doing all that you’ve done, or someone who by some genetic whatever, has two dicks?” Ryan’s voice had risen by then. “How dare you use the word freak and me in the same sentence? If anyone should be able to do that, it certainly mustn’t be you.”

“Ryan, settle down,” Jeremy said tentatively. Ryan was hulking out…transforming, but into a wolf-man which only alphas and in very rare cases, their marked mates could do. Ryan wasn’t marked. The jeans and t-shirt he was wearing began to fall off his body in tatters. Jeremy had thought mere minutes earlier that a man with two dicks was strange. Well, there was nothing stranger than an unmarked ordinary werewolf hulking out into a wolf-man.

“So now it’s Ryan huh?” Ryan’s voice was not human. His beast had taken over. “Didn’t think you knew my name.”

Jeremy was getting very worried. After that talk with Philip, he didn’t want to use his alpha tone on Ryan but the situation called for that. In his current form, Ryan could kill him with just a snap of his hand and Jeremy knew it. He just had to use it one more time.

“Shift back into human now,” Jeremy commanded and heard the door to Ryan’s room burst open. He watched as the wolf-man froze. “Stay back Lip,” Jeremy ordered without turning to look at his beta. “Human, now.” He commanded and watched as Ryan rather transformed into the beautiful white wolf again. “Human,” Jeremy growled but Ryan growled right back, baring his teeth and getting into an attack mode.

Jeremy quickly crouched down and bared his neck to his mate, showing submission. He couldn’t for the life of him understand why his command was not working on Ryan. Jeremy planned on finding out just why, later. He could have transformed and fought to defeat Ryan with cheeky ease. But he didn’t think he had the right to do that. At that very moment, Jeremy knew his life was in danger. His mate was ready to attack and possibly kill him. He didn’t blame Ryan’s wolf at all. He’d brought it upon himself by treating his mate very badly. Jeremy didn’t want to agitate Ryan any further. Actually, his life probably depended on not doing anything at all.

The wolf sprung towards Jeremy, giving a ferocious growl which drowned out Philip’s terrified scream. Jeremy saw his life flash before his eyes but didn’t move, hoping it was going to be a quick death. He deserved to die for what he’d done to his mate. But then he realized, after not feeling any impact after some seconds, that Ryan’s aim hadn’t been to attack him. The wolf had rather jumped out of the opened window. Jeremy almost had a heart attack.

With a cry of terror, he rushed to the window and looked out just in time to see Ryan’s wolf jump down from ledge to ledge on the building. Jeremy breathed a sigh of relief. He knew Ryan wouldn’t have survived the jump if he had attempted to jump straight down. But Jeremy’s relief was short-lived. He remembered that his warriors wouldn’t hesitate to kill Ryan on sight. After all, no one knew he was the alpha’s mate. As far as they were concerned, the alpha had only turned the hunter as a form of punishment.

“Philip!” Jeremy screamed as he tore off his clothes. “Tell them not to harm him.” With that, Jeremy shifted into the huge red wolf and jumped out of the window.

Then he went after his mate.