Chapter 104

• It had to have been a direct consequence of the natural crazy-possessiveness and crazy-protectiveness that came with mating. It was age-old instincts pushing to the forefront, taking over. Dante understood that the mating would be temporary, but his instincts to protect his mate was going to override his thoughts. Obviously. Just like his instinct to mark his mate and make her submit to him had overridden his true indifference to those things. Yeah, that was all it was, all it could be. Obviously. That didn't improve his mood because there was another issue that was bothering him. Freya shouldn't have been able to calm his wolf.
• When wolf shifters went into an unstable mode, they behaved a lot like rabid animals. They attacked senselessly, they felt no emotional attachments, and they lost all sense of reason and logic. And yet, her scent and voice had reached his wolf even through that fog.
• Dante had felt how quickly his wolf had recognized her as his mate, how quickly he had switched from wanting to kill to wanting to protect. The only reason his wolf had been reluctant to leave the carcass was that he still hadn't been stable enough to understand that the sandy wolf was dead and no longer a danger to Freya.