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attacked me,” I demanded, folding my arms over my chest, in
defiance. One way or another, I was going to see this human Ashby
had captured. This was my existence the humans were tangling with,
and I wouldn’t sit back and let the Krieger handle this
one.
    “You will need to identify him,” he scowled.
“But you are not going to be in the same room as he is. You can
pick him out of a lineup.”
    “Can we do that now?” I asked, leaving the
room and Ashby as I made my way for the stairs. “Because, I’m going
to the station with or without you. I want to see this human.”
     

Chapter 10

    Ashby
     
    Frustration wasn’t even the beginning of
what I was feeling toward my mate. She sauntered out of the room
like a model on a runway, swaying her hips as she went. My
traitorous manhood stiffened as I watched her walk away. I had to
adjust myself to keep from being in pain.
    Lydia was mad, hurt, at the things she
assumed I thought. I could hear her thoughts, but only when she was
under high stress. So, if she was anxious, in pain, or scared, I
would know what was going on in her head. Also, when she was angry.
Those I didn’t like, at all. All of the other thoughts she had were
her own, not for me to know.
    Rowland raised a brow as Lydia stomped past
him and jumped into the front seat of my SUV. He laughed
boisterously when she slammed the door so hard, I thought it may
crack.
    “Red’s got a temper,” he chuckled.
    “ Don’t ,” I growled, punching my
finger into the center of his chest. “Do not say a damn word
against my mate!” Blood seeped into my eyes and my fangs punched
through my gums painfully.
    “Hey,” Rowland held his hands up where I
could see them. “Just making a statement.”
    “We are going to the station,” I said,
clenching my hands at my side. The last thing I needed to do was to
get into an altercation with Rowland about my mate’s temper. She
was fired up enough already. If I did anything to him, she’d have
my balls in a sling before I could make the next move. They were
friends, and I needed to remember that, but I didn’t like knowing
that they were close in any way. She was my mate, and I didn’t want
her anywhere near another male…for eternity.
    The ride over to the station was quiet.
Lydia didn’t speak to me, and her thoughts were silent, which I
hoped that meant she was not angry. I’d forced the issue about her
being in the same room as the human, because I panicked. The
thought of those men touching her, hurting her again, caused
an anger inside me that I didn’t like myself.
    I was quickly becoming obsessed with her…my
mate. I never thought this day would come for me. It’d been so long
since I was privileged enough to have a woman, a female, to care
for…to call my own, that I was having a hard time not worrying
about her protection. She needed to be taken care of more now,
because she was mated to a Krieger . She could be targeted
because of her newfound status.
    “Alydian,” I spoke her true name as we
parked. I reached out and gently touched her hand.
    “Ashby,” she smiled, but quickly frowned.
The look on my face must have worried her. “What’s wrong?”
    “I want you to stay at my home,” I said.
“It’s not safe for you to be alone.”
    “I have my Nacthmann ,” she paused.
“Is it really that bad that I have to go to the estate? Was Charity
right when Dragus told her that?”
    “He was correct, doll,” I shivered. “One of
the Krieger’s mates was taken in England. She didn’t think
she needed to be protected as much as her Krieger had told
her. The hunters took her from a shopping mall. They delivered her
body back to the estate. The things they’d done to her were
unthinkable.”
    “Oh,” she gasped. “What about the Krieger? What happened to him?”
    “He’s better,” I sighed, heavily. “The
heartbreak was horrible for the first decade. He was sedated and
kept comfortable for a very long time. It’s been about