The Alpha's Heart (Wilde Creek Two) Read Online Free PDF

you need people that have the kind of wisdom that comes from living for fifty or sixty years.”
    True.
    Acksel cleared his throat.  “You’re pretty smart for not being sixty years old.”
    Auro grinned.  “Thanks, man.  You’re alpha for a reason, and it has as much to do with your inner strength as it does with your physical strength.”
    Acksel was going to miss Auro.
    “Go on and take off, I’ll see you out there.”
    Within seconds, the two wolves bounded off together.  He scanned the pack members still milling around.  Most of them had shifted or headed off into the woods to fuck.  He would have been one of those, once upon a time.  Any other full moon, and Talia, naked on her knees in front of him, would have had him hard in two seconds.  Tonight, though, all he could see was Brynn.  No one else would do.
    Which meant he was royally screwed.
    Standing, he stripped and shifted, letting himself go into the primal thoughts of his wolf, which wanted to hunt and chase and run.  It was better not to think of things he couldn’t have than to dwell on dreams that would haunt him forever.
     
    * * * * *
     
    Rufus Eddington stood on the edge of the woods just outside the city limits of Wilde Creek.  Taylor and Barry were with him.  They’d been banished from Wilde Creek three weeks ago for their part in their friend Vince’s scheme to take over the pack.  Rufus missed his friend every day; Vince would have made a great alpha.
    He paced in the darkness along the trail that he and his friends had followed.  They were banished from Wilde Creek, unable to set foot or paw inside the town under threat of death from the alpha.  He didn’t much care for Acksel the Asshole and his decrees; he and his pals had decided to carry on with at least part of Vince’s plan and go after him.  Acksel would either reinstate them in the pack and then lose in a challenge for the position of alpha with Rufus, or they would kill him.
    They couldn’t use his sister to get to him, though.  That human mate of hers was a fucking animal and Rufus didn’t want to tangle with him again.  But Vince had been thinking along the right lines — to get to Acksel, they had to find someone close to him, and that meant his mate.  Except he didn’t have one.
    Barry cracked his neck nervously.  “What if Acksel never picks a mate?”
    Rufus shrugged and chewed on his thumbnail.  “He will eventually.  And if he doesn’t, then we’ll use Talia to get him alone and take him out.  One way or the other, Acksel won’t be alpha much longer.”
    Just as he was wondering where she was, the bitch in question came through the woods.  Talia was one of the single females in the pack.  She cavorted with any single male that would have her, but what she really wanted was to be the alpha’s mate.  That seemed unlikely, though.  If Acksel thought that Talia was his mate, he would have chosen her years ago, not just used her every now and then for full moon fucks.
    “About time,” Rufus snarled at her.
    She bared her teeth.  “I was busy.”
    He snorted.  “Fine.  What happened?”
    Talia had planned to fuck Acksel that night and feel him out for who he thought he would mate with so she could share the information with them.
    She sighed.  “He refused me.  I stuck around long enough to hear him and his beta talk about how his mate was probably not in the pack.”
    His ears perked up.  “Yeah?  Did he say who she was?”
    “No, I don’t think he has a mate, I think that they were just talking.  But he wouldn’t fuck me tonight and didn’t fuck any of the females.”
    “What’s that mean?”  Taylor asked, leaning against a tree.
    Rufus hummed in his throat.  “I think it means that he has someone in mind that he’s staying away from for some reason.  Someone he’s met recently.”
    “Why recently?”  Talia asked.
    “He fucked you last month, right?”  Rufus asked.  Talia nodded.  Rufus said, “Well,