Jacks, Marcy - Eli's Reluctant Mate [DeWitt's Pack 5] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic ManLove) by Marcy Jacks (best ereader under 100 .txt) 📗

He looked over, and it seemed that nearly the whole pack of alphas appeared, all of whom had been hiding in various places around the parking lot. Andrew, Gordon, Lyle, Nick. Everyone was dressed in their regular clothes, meaning they hadn’t shifted and run here but had stayed in their human forms.

Even James. Out of everyone, he looked the least pleased. His scarred face was turned down in a frown. “We came looking for you

and scented your blood and the blood of other werewolves minutes  from our road. We followed it here and have been trying to get your  attention. We were just about to charge in there and get you. What the  fuck is going on?” James paused then leaned forward and sniffed. His  nose crinkled. “You smell like you’ve got alcohol leaking from your  pores.”

All things considered, his alpha had a reason to be pissed. He  might as well tell the truth, seeing as he couldn’t hide the fact that  he’d been at a bar.

“I had a couple of drinks and was just heading home when two of  those new werewolves Deacon turned found me. I fought them off  and came here to heal up.”

Eli didn’t bother with lifting his arm so that James could see the  healing scar. His eyes were already looking down at it, and the  bandage on Eli’s face was still pretty noticeable.

“I smell a human in there,” James said, nodding his head toward  the motel. “Should I ask what you’re doing with him?”

James, as tactfully as he could, merely glanced down at Eli’s still  half-hard cock, before turning his eyes back up and looking at Eli’s  face.

Eli cleared his throat. “He’s my mate. I haven’t told him yet though. Christ, I don’t think I even told him my name yet.”

Mentioning that he’d found his mate and using the word  he in the same sentence, didn’t bring about much of a reaction, except all the men seemed to look at each other.

30                          Marcy Jacks

When James found his mate in Corey, he’d had to go and speak to their wise woman to see if something like that was even possible.  Two male mates was just such a rare occurrence, especially when, up until recently, it had been assumed that one only found their mate because nature was telling them it was time to have pups.

Currently, there were four male couples in James DeWitt’s pack who were mated.

Eli and Chris would make the fifth mated couple, once he told

Chris about them. He wondered how the other man would take it.

James sighed. “All right, there’s nothing I can do about it if he’s your mate. I’m assuming he’s also the one who gave you that?”

James pointed to the bandage on Eli’s face, and he nodded.  “Right. I was getting ready to call you, and because he’s human, he wasn’t sure what I was or what attacked us until I told him, and when

he brought me here, he left our scent open to be hunted.”

“How do you think we found you?” Adam asked.

“Christ, even I was able to track you, and I don’t have a

werewolf’s nose,” Isaac said.

“Your scent was all over the place,” Andrew said. The guy rarely  spoke about anything, so for him to point that out was just too much  for Eli.

Irritation bubbled inside him at their comments. “Yes, well, he

was never trained to hide like we were. James,” Eli said, turning to his  pack alpha. “One of those weres that attacked us, they saw his face.  They have his scent and they know what he looks like. They’ll be  sniffing him out.”

James nodded, understanding immediately. “He won’t fight if we  take him with us?”

Eli shook his head. He would make sure that Chris understood

perfectly what was at stake here. Chris needed to hide now, or those  other wolves would track him down, rape him, and kill him, maybe  not even in that order. “I’ll explain to him that it’s important he comes  with us. I’ll make sure he understands.”

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Eli had never done that thing before that some mates could do to each other, where one could gently manipulate the emotions of the other.

Now would be a good time to learn, however, if Chris did decide he didn’t want to travel with a group of dangerous creatures he didn’t understand. Eli wasn’t ready to part with him just yet.

“All right. Go in, get him, and come back home. I’ll have a talk with you privately there.”

Of course. Eli wasn’t out of the woods yet for going back to drinking in the bar.

“There’s one more thing, James.”

“What is it?”

“Chris, he has day-and-night eyes.”

James’s eyebrows lifted, and he turned to look toward the motel

door with its big gold numbers, where Chris was still hidden.

“Well, shit.”

32                          Marcy Jacks

Chapter Four

Chris jumped at the knock at the door. He looked through the peephole and quickly unbolted the door. He was surprised to see the man he’d taken in wearing a pair of jeans.

“We need to go.” It was all he said as he grabbed Chris by the arm and yanked him out.

“Hey!” Chris tried to fight the guy off. Seriously, he didn’t think he was that small of  a guy, he did have muscle on him, but even using all of his strength he couldn’t pry his arm out of this man’s grip.

“Stop that. You’re going to bruise yourself,” he said, halting suddenly and looking Chris in the eyes.

Too weird. “I have my stuff back there. My wallet and cards,

everything.”

“My friends will get it all for you.”

“Your friends?” Chris looked over and saw all the men suddenly  hanging out on the parking lot. Each of them varied in size, but they  were all huge as far as Chris was concerned. Some of them looked  downright scary, like professional hit men with their sunglasses. Was  that guy wearing gun holsters?

Chris would have looked a little closer, had his attention not been

taken by the gray wolf behind the shrubs, head bent, orange eyes

glaring at Chris.

Jesus Christ! It was another one of them.

Without realizing it, he