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“This Alpha best not be thinking I am some damsel in distress!” Lexa snaps, insulted at his actions.
“Step aside, Osiris, I have business to take up with my daughter!” my father orders.
“Not here you don’t, and certainly not in my club.” Osiris growls.
My father scoffs, looking between Alpha Osiris and me, and I go to tell them both I’m leaving anyway when my father speaks. “What? Are you fucking him too? Have you no shame, Elena! Just like your mother, a fucking whore!” My father yells in my face, and I feel Lexa press forward as my hands fist.
However, before I can even react to my father’s words, a fist connects with his face, and he grunts, his head snaps backward, and blood spurts out of his nose. I blink, stunned for a second when I feel an arm wrap around my waist.
Alpha Osiris jumps and I see Security all watching as my father curses before stepping toward me when Axton suddenly shoves me behind him. “Call my mate a whore again and see what happens, Derrick. I will break more than your fucking nose!” Axton spits at my father.
Chapter Three
My father snarls and swings back at him. Axton moves quicker though, seeing it coming before hitting him again. His hands grab my father’s shirt, ripping him toward him and headbutting him. The resounding crack of their heads clashing makes my teeth ache as my father goes down like a sack of potatoes. Cane erupts with laughter, making me look at him. He lifts his glass and nods.
“Well, I guess your mate doesn’t hate you as much as I thought,” he chuckles. Osiris groans and looks over at Axton, then shakes his head and lifts his hand, waving his guards over.
“Get him out,” he orders, and they grab my father.
“Really, Axton, this better not be in the fucking papers tomorrow!” Osiris snaps.
“If it is, I’m sure your reputation will still stand, Osiris. You’re good at putting the blame on others. Don’t make out you didn’t tell him where she was. Derrick knows better than to step into your establishments without permission.” Axton snarls.
“No idea what you are talking about,” Osiris says, yet the way his lips tug in the corners and his eyes flicker dangerously, I could see the snake he is beneath the facade. Some intuitive sense that I have just been set up filters through my thoughts.
“I was just being friendly.” Osiris replies, his eyes moving to me.
“No, you were hoping to get back at me by fucking with my mate. Now, this will be your one and only warning. Elena is off limits. Pull this shit again, and I don’t give a fuck how far up the supernatural council’s ass you are. It won’t stop me from killing you.” Axton snarls, his tone ice-cold.
I have no idea what I have just gotten into the middle of, but something has clearly gone on between these two in the past. This plan to have a few drinks with me was far more sinister than just council members checking out the new Alpha and competition in the city.
Lexa, instead of urging me to escape Axton, is urging me to listen to what we are just witnessing. It makes me wonder if this is also why Axton followed me over here. Mostly I thought it was to drag me back and demand the boys, but seeing him now I wonder if it were to see what Osiris was up to as well. He could have easily dragged me out the moment I stepped in here.
“I’m sure Elena can speak for herself about the company she keeps?” Osiris smirks at Axton and his eyes move to mine.
Axton growls, taking a step toward him when I grab his hand, lacing my fingers through his. He stops, his body tensing only fleetingly, certainly not enough for Osiris to notice. He squeezes my fingers.
“And now you know her answer.” Axton growls, lifting my hand slightly, and I step closer to him.
“Silly girl, you won’t last in the council if you aren’t playing on the right side of it. Being a woman, you’re at even more of a disadvantage. I was willing to help you.”
“This was a power play!” Lexa snarls angrily that we didn’t pick up on it. My father’s pack is the second largest and because I was so focused on Axton, I walked into a trap. One that could have seen me challenged for a title I am yet to claim within the city.
“Now that is where you are mistaken, Alpha. I am not disadvantaged. Once I take my title back, I step into power. I will hold the second-largest pack in this city. Therefore, you will be at a disadvantage. But you know that, that is why you invited me here.” he shrugs, neither denying nor admitting what he did.
“And you think you’re better off with him. That’s the only reason he wants you now, to take your pack. I would have let you be, Luna. He’ll just make you his bitch.” Osiris laughs, walking off before I can answer. Lexa growls angrily in my head. Axton shakes his head, tugging on my hand while I glare after the man.
“Well, I guess he showed his true colors. I guess I’ll come with you lot then! I thought he liked me. Now, I’m wondering if he liked me a little too much. I ain’t nobody’s bitch, and certainly not interested in the D!” Cane chuckles, hopping off his stool. He stumbles, making me wonder how much he has drunk in such a short time. I reach out and grab his arm when Axton growls at me.
He grabs Cane’s arm to steady him. “This political shit is hard. I should have stuck with mechanics. But noooooo, Dad and Pete had to just die on me, making me Alpha!” Cane huffs.
“I tried to warn you, Cane.”
“That you did, Alpha Axton.” he slurs.
“Eli!” Axton calls out, and he instantly rushes over, grabbing Cane’s other arm from me.
“Man, what is in those drinks? I think he was planning on making me his bitch. I think he slipped something into my drink. Thank the Goddess you’re here, Axton. My ass isn’t bitch material.” Cane slurs.
