Thorn POV
Having my arm wrapped around Fawn as we drove back to the castle has calmed my anger. Not completely, but enough I don't want to shift and go back to deal with that f**ker right this minute for all the pain he caused her. Then to see that he locked his own mother in the cells was another level of f**ked up. It took all my control not to just kill that ba**ard and be done with it.
"Want to claim mate," Atticus says as he paces in my mind. "I do too, buddy, but we have to be patient. She has been through a lot in a very short period of time. Besides, she is a carrying a pup. She is probably exhausted even though the rejection didn't nearly affect her as much as it did alpha a**hat."
"Mate is strong," he says. "Yes, she is. She is magnificent. She is perfect." He growls his agre
