Not My Wolf by Eden Cole

and felt desperation to get to Devin. While he lay sleeping, someone had been hurting him, beating him. Corey tossed the branch away and charged forward. Blaine stepped into his path and gripped his shoulders.
    “Hold on. I know you’re upset,” Blaine said.
    “Get the hell out of my way,” Corey yelled. “I’m more than upset. They have Devin. Don’t you understand?”
    Blaine ’s tone remained level. “Yes, I understand perfectly, and I promise you I’ll stay with you until we find him. We will find him, Corey,” Blaine insisted. “But you can’t go charging out there alone. They want that. We have to gather our men and do this right.”
    Corey balled his hands into fists. He stared past Blaine , pushing against his hold. He wanted to shift and forget everything except getting to Devin. Anguish must be clear on his face, visible to the few men who had come out with him to this site, but he didn’t care. Devin was all that mattered.
    He gave a small nod, and Blaine barked orders to the others nearby to gather more men. They would leave in five.
    Five minutes was an eternity. “I had another dream,” Corey confessed. “Someone was hurting him.” His voice thickened as the change began. His emotions were out of control, and there was no pulling them back. “They bound him and whipped him. I will rip that person from limb to limb for laying one finger on Devin. He will die tonight.”
    They all shifted and headed out to hunt the enemy. Corey stayed well ahead of his pack, running with everything he had. Blaine was close behind him, and by late into the night, they sniffed out Laramie ’s attackers. Corey downed five of the other men before Blaine could stop him. “We need one of them to tell us where Devin is,” he explained at Corey’s outraged expression after they’d both shifted to human form.
    Corey nodded and grabbed one of the enemies around the neck. He shook the wolf, making his body flop around. “Shift, damn you.”
    The man did, gasping for air.
    “Where is he?” he demanded. “Where’s the man you took? He belongs to us—to me ?”
    Fear etched the man’s eyes, and it should. Corey was prepared to rip him apart. The man held up shaking hands. “He’s at our camp, five miles from here.”
    “Show us.”
    He nodded.
    They ran on. The moon had hidden behind clouds, but Corey and his men had no trouble picking their way over the mountainous terrain. When they came to an area known for its expanse of caves, the wolf stopped and shifted. “There,” he said. “My Alpha will kill me for this. I can’t go any farther.”
    “You don’t have to worry about your Alpha,” Corey told him. He left the man crumpled on the ground.
    Corey gave the command. They must know that he and his men were coming, but it didn’t matter. Even if he was outnumbered, he didn’t care. He needed to get to Devin. The closer he’d come to this place, Corey had felt Devin’s emotions. He was in pain, but he was alive. Corey fought his way through until he came to a cave. He picked up Devin’s scent from beyond, so he knew he was there. The other pack’s Alpha stood in his way.
    “So this guy I have,” he taunted, “he’s your mate, isn’t he?”
    “That’s not your business,” Corey countered.
    The man laughed. “I’d heard the Beta of your group was gay, but you? That’s a surprise.” A slow, evil grin spread over his face. “What if I told you I had him last night, that he enjoyed it, and since you rejected him, he came to me?”
    To Corey’s surprise the other man’s cock stood out from his naked body, stiff and hard. His own words had turned him on. Was this lifestyle so common? How had he not noticed? Doubt assailed him. Had Devin left him willingly? His chest ached.
    “He wouldn’t do that,” Blaine interjected. “Devin would not betray his people, and he definitely wouldn’t leave his Alpha.”
    Corey was grateful Blaine hadn’t indicated Devin was his mate. He wasn’t ready