The Pack's Nemesis (Quirin's Story) novel Chapter 21

Kennedy

After checking on Samuel, who is about as sweet as he can be, I head back to the table with Quirin.

“Hey Luna, are you planning on lapping us again tonight?” someone calls out.

I turn, frowning? “What?”

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“We were running patrols last night when you decided to make all of us feel like lazy asses when you passed us three times.” I’d been so upset that I hadn’t even been paying attention.

“Oh. Oh, I’m sorry. I wasn’t trying to make you feel bad. Echo just needed to stretch her legs,” I tell him.

“That’s okay, Luna. It’s just a reminder that we need to push harder to make sure no one gets past our borders. It was pretty impressive,” a third patrol member says.

“Thank you.

If you ever need anyone to set the pace for you.” I begin and laugh when they all begin to say “NO” loudly.

When I turn back, I see Quirin watching me. I’m pretty sure that’s pride twinged with possessiveness on his face. Since he doesn’t keep the link between us open often, I’m not exactly sure

“Let’s see how the food is tonight,” I say, sitting down and starting to cat.

“Are you really that fast, Luna?” one of the warriors at our table asks me.

“I’m the fastest one in my family,” I say.

“How did I never know this about you?” Quirin asks me.

“I was never running away from you, Alpha,” I say, and feeling happy and flirtatious, I wink at him.

This time, I feel a rush of hot desire along with his low rumbling growl of pleasure before he shuts off the link between us again.

‘We need to do whatever you just did again, Kennedy. It’s been days since our mates have been inside us, Echo says, practically panting with need in my head.

It has been a while. Most newly mated couples are barely out in public because they can’t keep their hands off of each other. I know we’ve had some issues, but anytime Quirin has touched me, he’s made sure to keep a distance between us since that first night. Even his kiss this morning was sweet and gentle, not like the passionate kiss we shared our first night together.

‘Well, if he’s going to be training us tonight, perhaps we can take the opportunity to brush against him, maybe straddle him. Or maybe we pull him into the shower with us after we’re all hot and sweaty, Echo purrs in our mind.

I like all of those ideas, so I’m more excited than I’ve ever been to train when we finish dinner and say goodbye to the others. I glance around and don’t see Arlo anywhere. I’m glad, but I still need to make sure that Quirin knows that he might become a problem. I’m not exactly sure what role he expects me to take with the warriors, but he seems to be fine with maintaining the discipline as I assist the omegas and run the packhouse.

“Do you want to change before we go?” he asks me. I look down and realize that I’m probably not wearing good sparring clothes. Since Quirin was in warrior training right before dinner, he’s already dressed appropriately.

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“Yes, give me a few minutes,” I say and bound up the stairs.

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I quickly get dressed and when I come back downstairs, I see Quirin talking to one of the female warriors in our pack. I’ve watched my mate for a long time, watched how he interacts with she–wolves, so I’m not concerned with how he’s interacting with her. I am, however, concerned about her flirtatiousness with my mate. I can tell she’s using something that happened in training to get my mate to touch her, having him walk her through how to get out of some hold.

A growl escapes me before I even realize what Echo is going to do.

“Oh, Luna, I’m so sorry. I was just asking Alpha Quirin to assist me with a new maneuver we learned in training.”

“I see that,” I say, fighting Echo’s jealousy and her intense desire to swipe at this she–wolf and shout that Quirin is ours.

‘He is ours. Stop it, I tell her.

‘She touched him,‘ she growls.

‘She’s a warrior: I’m sure he touches all of them. You know he wasn’t giving her the look that we’re used to seeing on his face when he’s interested in taking them to bed. So, stop this.

“That she–wolf needs to know her place and it is NOT in our mate’s bed, she growls.

I feel Quirin’s arm come around my waist, firmly gripping my hip and pulling me closer to him. I’m not sure if he’s sensing Echo’s anger at this woman or if he’s making sure she doesn’t attack her.

“I’m afraid that Kennedy and I have plans for this evening. We can go through the maneuver again during training tomorrow,” Quirin tells her.

“Of course, Alpha. Thank you. Bye, Luna”

He doesn’t release his grip on me until we’re out of the packhouse, then he turns to look at me.

“What was that about?”

“Echo didn’t like another she–wolf touching you,” I say honestly

“Echo…” Quirin says, calling her forward.

“Yes, mate?” she replies in a sultry voice making him smile.

“Whose mark is this on my neck?”

She purrs loudly. “Mine!” she says then lifts up on our toes to lick our mark. I can taste the saltiness of his skin, and I can feel his body shiver from her action.

“Echo, you cannot attack our pack members simply because they are practicing new training methods,” he says stroking his knuckles over our cheeks.

“Was she?” he asks “I didn’t notice. I was too busy listening to my mate coming down the stairs.”

He leam in and gives us one of those chaste kisses before taking my hand. “Now, you’re not getting out of training. It’s important

I will say this about my mate, he’s not only an excellent fighter, which is apparent in his knowledge that he’s teaching me, but he’s also an excellent instructor.

I swear I can feel his body responding to our closeness just as mine is. I’m struggling to focus on his instructions because his close proximity is very distracting. Add to that, I know my scent is getting stronger the more he touches me and heat pools in my core.

We walk back to the packhouse, and I notice that several people look at us, as if expecting that we’ve been rolling around in the grass outside.

‘Let’s strip down and ask him to join us in the shower,‘ she says, as surprised by his distance as I am.

“Quirin, did you want to join me in the shower?” I ask him.

I watch as he turns, seeing me naked. His eyes go nearly black with desire and his teeth clench so that he doesn’t break a tooth.