Gabrielle
I lost a shoe somewhere in the first hundred metres and didn’t even pause, I pushed myself as fast as my human legs would carry me. Because I knew what was coming. I had seen it happen before in my own pride before I was banished.
Every now and then someone lost control, letting their animal take over . It almost always ended badly for what ever woman they chose to claim. As much as fated mates was a real thing you still had to live with that person as a human.
You had to at least like them.
And Diablo sure as hell didn’t like me. The tiger part of him wanted to claim me , hell he had mentioned the words mate more than once but as a woman, me and Diablo were not compatible.
A tree branch whipped across my cheek opening it up to the night air, the stinging burn making me
