The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate novel Chapter 393

Chapter 393: Don’t You Fucking Dare Ask Our Mate

None of the people who were supposed to be listening to Captain Thane had a goddamn clue what that man was saying.

Dex’s Luna-outrage was temporarily derailed by the massive wave of fury slamming through their matebond. His wolf rumbled in his chest, amused.

Aegon: Mate is cute when she is angry. Let’s tackle her right now.

Dex: Absolutely not.

Fifteen feet away, Fin stood with his arms crossed. His eyes were flickering between hazel and molten, arguing with his wolf who was ready to eliminate Captain Thane.

Xeon: Ten seconds. That’s all I need.

Fin: No.

Xeon: Five.

Fin: No.

Externally, Serena was calm. If you ignored the fact that her eyes were flickering between gold and green, she was normal. Internally, her wolf had been monologuing at full blast for five minutes and refused to lower the volume.

Aurelia: He pulled it from a POUCH, Serena. The chicken represents a fundamental misunderstanding of who we are as a wolf. I have dignity. I will run from this Arena the second I shift if it is not put away.

Thane stopped talking, clearly having asked a question.

"My wolf is very intelligent. She just hasn’t built the muscle memory yet," Serena said.

"Everyone says their wolf is smart," Captain Thane said, smiling the way trainers smile when a new student defends their wolf’s intelligence, the warm, patronizing smile of a man who had heard the sentence four hundred times and found it endearing every time.

Captain Calder nodded in agreement. "The intelligence is rarely the issue. It is the handler-wolf coordination that needs development."

Aurelia: HANDLER.

Aurelia’s eruption intensified to a level that Serena hadn’t known was available.

Aurelia: HOW DARE HE! I am going to eat his chicken pouch, and then his belt, and then his boot, and the order is IMPORTANT because it represents an ESCALATING statement of DISAPPROVAL.

Serena dragged a hand down her face. The gesture was slow, comprehensive, covering her entire expression and buying her two seconds to wrestle her wolf back from the edge of a tantrum that was going to manifest physically if she let it continue.

Serena: Aurelia. We are going to train and keep calm. We are going to shift when they ask us to shift, and we are going to do it without biting anyone or lighting them on fire.

Serena closed her eyes for a second. When she opened them, they were pure molten gold. When she spoke her voice did not come out singular.

"Remove the chicken or my wolf will attack you because she does not like chicken," Aurelia ordered through Serena. Serena blinked again, then added "Please" in her own voice.

Silence.

Everyone looked at Serena, surprised, including Fin and Dex. Wonderful.

Thane’s brows knit for a moment. The fact he had asked if she could talk to her wolf suggested he was aware certain people could talk to wolves. But it was clear he had never heard a wolf do THAT. Ironic, considering everyone on the Drakenfell side had absolutely heard Fin’s wolf talk through him.

Serena: I am begging you to stop.

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