“Then I'll stay here until you can,” Eivind spoke instead, determined. What other choice did he have? He wasn't leaving his mate here alone, no matter the circumstances. If he couldn't travel, he was going to just have to help him until he could. Once he was home with him, things would be easier. He wouldn't be in any immediate danger.. at least not once he smoothed things over with the pack.<br/><br/>Anger flashed across Eivind's face at the young man made his request.<br/><br/>“You'd rather me just leave you here, to wallow in your own misery?” Eivind snarled, but part of himself was guilty. He had been here, alone, to deal with Lofgren's, and everyone elses perversions by himself. Shouldn't he have known that his mate was in some sort of trouble? He'd felt nothing before. Life had gone on just as it always had.<br/><br/>“Cut that shit. You're going to get better, and you're going to come with me,” he told him, thinking that it shouldn't be any more complicated than that. Eivind was frowning. It wasn't just that his mate was weak; he was in pain. “Lofgren isn't going to stop me. And fuck whoever else you keep mentioning. I don't even know who he is.” If Eivind didn't know him, he doubted he was someone of note. The only male the even registered to him was Lofgren, and already he'd been set at a disadvantage with part of his pack weakened. Together they were stronger than he was.<br/><br/>“It's already been settled. Lofgren isn't stupid enough to fight us,” Eivind assured. “Jamsen came to us. He told us about you.” Eivind didn't tell him that they'd come to kill him. It didn't seem so important now that it wasn't something to even be considered. They couldn't, could they? Not once they were mated, at least, but they weren't yet. He was already human. They wouldn't like that.<i>Eivind</i>didn't like that, but he knew, and there would be no changing anything. He was his, and everyone had taken a taste. They'd hurt him. Tortured him. Could they have known he was somehow linked to their pack? Could this young man subconsciously have been drawn to the wolves?<br/><br/>“Why were you out here? How did they catch you?” Eivind questioned, trying to make sense of any of it. He took a deep breath. “How long have they had you?”<i>How many times had you called for someone to help you? </i><br/><br/>Eivind hadn't come back to sit on the bed now that the young man was fully awake and spewing his mouth off. So far, he liked him more when he was asleep though. He could hardly believe any of this, and it should have been a time of elation but that wasn't possible for them. How was he supposed to tell him that after all he'd been through, he was destined to be the mate of another werewolf? Now certainly wasn't the time, but the rest of the pack was in a state of confusion, and there was no telling what Lofgren might be thinking by then.