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“Good morning. You’re a little early.” Her voice was a little terse.
“You could have just told me the truth,” he growled.
“Let’s not do this here. Come in,” she said.
He fumed as he followed her to the kitchen and sat in the chair she pointed to.
“To be honest, I’m not surprised you found out. I meant to tell you, but the right time never seemed to come up.”
“You are a mundane human, adopted soon after birth.”
“Yes.”
“It would have been nice if you had told me before I wasted all my time here,” he growled.
Noah stood up abruptly, pushing his chair across the room.
“Hanging out with me was a waste of time? Good to know,” she said.
He heard the hurt in her voice as he left. Part of him felt like an ass for causing it, but part of him was very angry that she hadn’t been honest with him.
Sean was surprised to see him when he banged on Howlers’ locked doors.
“What’s up?” Sean asked.
“Heading home. I called the car rental company. They’ll be here in an hour to get the car.”
“Fair enough,” Sean said.
“You could have told me she was human and was adopted.”
“Not my business to tell,” Sean said.
Growling in the back of his throat, Noah glared at Sean who looked steadily back at him. Sean finally broke the silence by saying, “Have a nice trip back.”
Noah heard the words, but the tone was more like “good riddance.”
He rubbed his face as he approached the portal. Although he understood why Naomi and Clarence kept Angie’s identity a secret from the pack in general, they should have shared the information with him. He was their alpha and this was a big deal. No mundane human had ever been a part of the pack before and wouldn’t be accepted. Noah wouldn’t have banished Angie or her parents, but it would have been good to know.
Now he had a whole new problem. He had to find a different potential luna. Elijah and Keith, along with everyone else in the pack, would wonder why he came back without Angie, but he would just say that they weren’t compatible. Rubbing his temples, he was certain that a pounding headache was imminent.
As soon as he crossed into the shifter world, his phone rang. It was Elijah.
“Hey, when are you coming back? We have a situation here that needs your finesse.”
“I just crossed through the portal. What’s up?”
“Jasmine, Elder Fredrick’s granddaughter, ran off with the Demon Claw’s alpha’s son.”
Demon Claw Wolf Shifter Pack was a rival pack. They and the Silent Paw Pack had been bickering over land and resources since the dawn of time.
“Elder Fredrick is seething and wants to send an army after her,” Elijah said.
“Let me get to the house and get some coffee, and I’ll go talk to the alpha and assess the situation.”
Two hours later, he was at the edge of Demon Claw territory. A couple of wolves stepped out, growling.
“Lost, Alpha?” one of them asked.
