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Love Me, Still

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Love Me, Still

Maya Banks

Chapter One

Their father’s familiar scent drifted to Cael and Riyu through the mountain pine. The

two wolves raised their heads, sniffing the wind. The fur on their backs prickled and

stood on end. Danger.

Simultaneously, they shifted to their human form. More of their pack shifted around

them as they forged through the trees in the direction of Magnus’ scent. Nude forms

became clothed, a barrier to the cold and snow. Cael and Riyu conjured buckskins, boots,

a shirt and a heavy fur.

Their worry was not only for their father but for their mate, Heather. She had gone

with him this day along with Niko to the small mountain town below.

They sniffed again but couldn’t detect the scent of Heather or Niko. Only their

father. And his blood.

They put on a burst of speed, bounding into the clearing where their father struggled

through the snow in his human form.

“Father!” Riyu cried out.

Cael and Riyu rushed to where the older man collapsed, blood smearing his face and

chest. His wounds were ragged, and the flesh lay open in several places.

The two brothers looked at each other, fear churning in their gut. Where was

Heather? Where was their mate?

“My sons,” Magnus said, his voice low and weak.

“What happened, Father?” Cael demanded. “Where are Heather and Niko?”

Behind them, the rest of the pack gathered. Silent and worried. A high-pitched

scream shattered the calm. Someone must have summoned their mother.

She shoved by them and gathered their father in her arms, rocking back and forth as

tears streamed down her face. Magnus struggled against her, looking beyond her to his

sons.

“Heather…”

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They surged forward, their minds consumed with worry and fear that they had lost

their mate as it appeared they would lose their father. His wounds were severe. They

were mortal.

“You must tell us where to find her, Father,” Riyu pleaded. “Tell us what happened.

Who did this?”

“S-she betrayed us,” Magnus said, his voice heavy with pain and sorrow.

Cael reared back. “What? What are you saying?” He moved closer to his father,

gently pushing his mother away. “Father, Heather is our mate. She would never betray

us.”

Magnus coughed, blood bubbling from his mouth. “She did this. I think Niko is dead

as well. We were ambushed. I was taken. I saw her at the clearing where they held me

and Niko. I saw her hurting him as the others beat me. I heard her swear vengeance on

the pack.”

“No,” Riyu denied, shaking his head. “She wouldn’t. She loves us. Accepts what we

are. She would not lead hunters to us.”

Magnus’ clear blue eyes, mirrors of his son’s, opened wide and stared at the two

brothers. “Look into my sight. See what I saw.”

Cael and Riyu thrust into their father’s mind. It was a wild, swirling vortex. Blurred

images. Painful ones. They heard Heather laughing. Saw her dance in and out of Magnus’

vision, a bitter smile on her beautiful face. You will die. She came closer, stepping in

front of the men who were beating their father. They will kill you. Determination was

etched in her features as she looked into their father’s face. More images. Heather in the

embrace of one of the hunters.

Riyu and Cael fell back, their hearts pounding, grief swelling in their chests.

Betrayal, sharp and agonizing, sliced through Cael’s body. God, no! How could she?

Their father. A man who had adopted her as his own daughter when Cael and Riyu had

taken her as mate. And now she had killed him. And one of their pack brethren.

“I’m sorry,” Magnus whispered. More blood ran from his mouth in a fine stream. “I

loved her, too. Like…like a daughter to me.”

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