Remy's Wolf (Wolves of Mt. Alexis, 1) by Kelex Read Free Book Online Page A

rushed from
his bedroom. The damned human was infuriating. Why couldn’t he just
accept what he was? He walked into the kitchen and yanked open the
refrigerator with a little more force than he’d anticipated, and
the appliance teetered from side to side for a moment before
stilling. Hank grabbed a beer and twisted the cap off before
downing half the contents.
    “ Rough
claiming?”
    Hank spun on his heel to see Paul in
his living room, tinkering away on his new laptop. “What the fuck
are you doing here?”
    Paul set his laptop to the side and
rose from the couch, sticking both his hands in his back jean
pockets as he slouched to one side. Hank knew his brother was
trying to take a non-aggressive pose, which only meant one thing.
He was about to say something Hank wasn’t going to like.
    “ I figured you’d stumble
through this one like a bull in a china shop, so I figured you’d
need someone to talk to once the smoke cleared.”
    “ I’m fine. It was fine.
Get the hell out of my cabin,” Hank snarled before draining almost
all the rest of his beer.
    “ Fine? You just claimed
your mate, after waiting for a hundred years to find him and it’s
just fine ? You
must’ve fucked up worse than I expected,” Paul said as he walked
into the kitchen and pushed past Hank to get to the refrigerator.
He grabbed a carton of orange juice and took a swig right from the
container.
    “ Use a goddamn glass. This
isn’t your place.”
    Paul smiled as he dropped the carton
back into the fridge and swung the door shut. “So, are you going to
let me help you, or are you going to continue stomping around here,
growling, while your mate bangs on the presumably locked door,
begging to be released.”
    Hank snarled and finished off the beer
before reaching in for another. “He’s human. He doesn’t understand
wolf ways.”
    “ And you’re a wolf. You
don’t understand human ways. If you expect him to be considerate to
you, then you need to offer a little courtesy yourself. Plus, where
do I even begin about the fact he was just raped by a psychopath
and watched you maul the guy before burning a cabin to the ground?
Knowing you, I’m sure you tied him down and forced yourself on him,
without thinking about what happened last night. All things
considered, I think your human is handling things pretty damned
well.”
    Hank froze as Paul’s logic hit him
like a slap to the face. He was a selfish asshole because he’d been
so focused on the claiming, he hadn’t thought about any of those
things. “Okay, Mr. Know-it-all, what do I do now to fix
this?”
    “ You consider his needs.
Humans are very social animals, not just within their own pack.
They hold jobs and responsibilities outside a den. There will be
people looking for him, worried. You need to let him find a way to
tie up loose ends and perhaps find a way to live in both
worlds.”
    “ He’s a mate. He doesn’t
belong in that world anymore.” Hank wasn’t prepared to share his
mate with others.
    “ If you can’t tone down
your possessiveness, you’re going to chase him away, if you haven’t
already. He’ll need time to get used to being part of our pack,
just like you’re going to need to embrace his world. There’s no
running and hiding anymore, Hank.”
    Hank walked to the sofa and dropped
beside Paul’s laptop, eyeing the piece of technology with disdain.
“It’s not like we are completely ignorant of humans. We go into
their world when we have to. I pay the taxes on this property every
quarter like clockwork and all the bills to bring electric and your
precious satellite television to the mountain. I sell the gold each
month to the foundry. Hell, Louisa couldn’t do the grocery shopping
a few weeks ago, and I went to the damned market. I deal with
humans all the time.”
    “ This is different than
that, big bro. Running errands for the pack isn’t the same as being
social.”
    Hank shook his head, knowing Paul was
probably right. Why couldn’t his