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ATLAS
Atlas Silvers was pissed.
Not just angry. Not in a bad mood.
Full-on pissed.Pissed off!
He was used to anger. It was basically the way he went around the world, angry at everything and anything.
However, this was different.
It was so different that he couldn’t even see clearly. His vision was clouded over, making the world around him fuzzy and blurry. Even the buzzing in his ears was deafening.
He shook his head and jammed his index fingers into his ears. He tried to pop them. Nothing. He rubbed his eyes and blinked them open. Nothing.
There was no change.
The anger was still there with no sign of easing. In fact, it was only getting worse. And the second the woman opened her mouth and spoke, Atlas knew he was done for.
“Are you just gonna stand there?” She narrowed her enticing, chocolate-brown eyes at him.
There was every chance he would never be the same again now that his animal had found her.
His mate.
Maaaaaate!his wolf howled so loudly, Atlas barely heard when the woman snapped at him again, finishing her jabbing comment. “Or are you going to do yourjob?”
Atlas growled low in the back of his throat. He didn’t appreciate the woman’s tone, nor did he think this was a particularly good time to be rendered speechless. For the first time, his dick and his wolf were on the same team, and Atlas wasn’t prepared to fight himself when there was already a battle happening.
His pack, along with the Greenlee and Blackwood packs, were fighting the vampire council. The manor house was on fire, and most of the vampires were dead and dusted. His mission…the only fucking thing he had to do…was to take Lilliane Longborn to a safe place until the vampire threat had blown over once and for all.
Atlas had taken the task because he wanted to get a good look at the woman who had run away from her sisters to marry a member of the vampire council. A vamp she didn’t know. A vamp who would probably treat her like shit while he made her pop out vamp babies to solidify the vampire position in the world.
What he didn’t expect…wasthat the insane woman would be his mate.
It was a mistake. Obviously, his wolf was confused, and as soon as he took Lilliane to his cabin, where he was going to keep her locked in one of the guest bedrooms, the howling would stop. His wolf would know a terrible mistake had been made, and everything would be okay.
Atlas would be completely fine.
“Hello?” Lilliane snapped again. “Are you unwell? Can you evenhearme?”
“Iamdoing my job, but only because of you,” he snapped right back.
The woman sneered.Fuck. Even sneering, she was the most stunning woman he’d ever seen. It was those warm eyes. No. It was those full pink lips. Maybe it was the curve of her waist or her long brown hair snaking down her back in thick, lush curls.
She put her hands on her hips and tapped her foot at him. “Do you really think this ismyfault?”
“Absolutely. Ever since you and your sisters came to town, it’s been one thing after another.”
“I hardly think that’s fair. We lived in Longville a long time.”
“I don’t care. You three brought trouble to my life, and you’ve endangered my pack. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t be setting fire to this place.”
“If I had it my way, all of this would have been overweeksago.”
“Whatever.”
