The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate novel Chapter 396

Chapter 396: Get Me Tiberon. Now.

The audience had given up on training. This was entertainment now.

Elara uncrossed her legs and crossed them the other way, settling in. Hale, beside her, had the expression of a Beta watching a carriage wreck he could have prevented and had chosen to observe instead.

"Should we intervene?" Hale asked.

"We should," Elara replied. "Are we? No, we are not."

Aegon’s tongue found Aurelia’s ear again. The lick was long, deliberate, and carried the energy of a wolf who had decided that grooming his mate in a military arena was a hill worth dying on and had packed provisions for the siege.

Dex: He is going to charge.

Aegon: Let him.

Xeon charged.

The impact sounded like two boulders colliding at speed. Aegon saw it coming and braced, lowering his center of gravity a half second before contact, but Xeon’s momentum carried both of them sideways across the arena floor in a skidding tangle of black fur, black teeth, and extremely personal grievances.

Aurelia, suddenly free, stood in the center of the arena with nobody holding her for the first time in five minutes. She lay down and watched with her tail curled around her paws.

Aegon rolled and got his footing first. His snarl ripped across the arena with enough force to make three Shadowclaw warriors take a step backwards.

The two wolves slammed into each other again. Teeth met shoulder. Claws met ribs.

Captain Thane looked at Captain Calder. Calder looked at Thane. Both men wore the expressions of professionals whose training curriculum had been replaced by a testosterone custody battle between gods.

Aurelia stood up, walked three paces to the left, and lay down in a different spot.

Both Alpha wolves froze mid-charge, heads snapping toward her, because their mate had moved and the new position meant the entire territorial calculation had to be recalibrated from scratch.

She put her head on her paws and closed her eyes.

Aurelia’s nap lasted four seconds. Aegon’s paw found her first, dragging her against his side. Xeon’s snarl shook the arena walls. The charge resumed.

They collided over her sleeping body, and Aurelia scrambled out from under four hundred pounds of jealous wolf. A glowing tennis ball caught between two wrecking balls. She bolted to the far end of the arena and pressed herself against the wall, ears flat, legs trembling.

Aegon caught Xeon’s scruff and threw him sideways. Xeon hit the ground, rolled, and was back on his feet before the dust settled. He lunged low, teeth finding Aegon’s front leg, and the yelp that came out of Dex’s wolf was loud enough to echo off the rafters.

Xeon released the leg and went for the throat. Aegon twisted, caught Xeon’s ear, and the two of them spiraled across the arena in a violent, snarling knot that knocked over a weapons rack, scattered a row of training dummies, and sent Captain Thane diving behind a stone column.

Captain Calder had already retreated to the stands. Professional survival instinct. Both Betas and the Beta Luna were right behind him.

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