Something was wrong.
As Zeke’s angry haze slowly disappeared, he watched the way his mate sank to the ring mat. Her body started trembling, and her fear almost knocked him over.
But she wasn’t scared of him; he could sense that. This was something else.
Why was she in his ring?
His gaze shifted to the people surrounding the ring, and he growled at them, warning them to keep away from his mate. With Shadow’s size, it only took moments to walk around, cataloguing everything and everyone’s scents to try and see where the danger was. Everyone backed off, and the stench of their fear assaulted his nose. He would rip any of them apart if they had hurt Ava.
‘Let’s do it anyway. It’s time we showed them she belongs to us,’ Shadow said.
It was tempting. He’d been holding back so long that t
