QUOTE : ZEV walked out of his parents’ house and over to his truck, dropped<br /><br />his head against the door, and took in a deep breath, letting the fresh air<br /><br />cool his lungs. Standing up to his family once again and garnering their<br /><br />support for his future mating was all well and good, but none of it<br /><br />meant a thing if his mate didn’t return and accept his place in the pack<br /><br />beside Zev. If Jonah didn’t come home soon, Zev wasn’t sure whether<br /><br />there’d be a Hassick male available to lead the Etzgadol pack.<br /><br />He looked up at the sky. The stars were beautiful out here. They<br /><br />sparkled above him, showing the spirits of those who came before.<br /><br />Come back to me, Jonah. Our spirits are intertwined, and my body<br /><br />cannot endure without its other half for much longer.<br /><br />He felt the pain deep in his bones, the urge to shift and run. But<br /><br />he pushed it back, grateful that, at least for now, his human could still<br /><br />exert his will. His wolf was tired of waiting for his human to find their<br /><br />mate and the wolf wanted control of their form so he could go find<br /><br />Jonah and claim him. But their mate was long gone, well out of scent<br /><br />distance, and the chance of Zev’s wolf finding him before running into<br /><br />hunters or vehicles was slim.<br /><br />Zev knew that unless he claimed his mate the time was fast<br /><br />approaching when his human would no longer be able to control his<br /><br />wolf. When that happened, the fear driving the intervention his family<br /><br />had staged that night would become a reality: Zev’s human would be<br /><br />forever lost. And without his human’s wisdom to limit him, Zev’s wolf<br /><br />would likely end his life trying to find his mate.