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I flexed my fingers before squeezing them back into a fist. “Yeah, I felt it.”
“She has her father’s magic within her.”
“She’s not Colin.”
He shook his head. “No, she’s not. But she’s our alpha’s last command. With his dying breath, he named her his successor. And we owe it to the man we respected and loved to make sure that happens.”
“She’ll never be him.”
“No, she won’t because she’s simply not him,” Hudson said as he turned to face me. “But that doesn’t mean we cast her out without a chance.”
“She’s already made her choice.”
“Because she doesn’t know any other way.”
I tossed him a glance. “Forgive me, ‘Oh Perfect One’, if I don’t see it your way.”
He clenched his jaws as he stared me down. “Colin would expect better of you, especially around his daughter.”
And with those words, he left me outside with my grief.
As the sky unleashed and poured down rain with a thunderous applause.
6
HUDSON
Lightning cracked across the sky as rain came down in sheets. As soon as the sky erupted I headed inside leaving Levi pace around in a circle as he practically wore a fucking hole in the front yard. He was drenched, and he’d smell like a damn wet dog for days after his outside bath. But he had anger he needed to release, and the last thing we needed was him slugging a fucking woman in her goddamn jaw.
Then again, something told me Raven would knock him out before his fist even connected.
“You’ll have to forgive them,” I said as I sensed Raven’s presence in the room with me. “We’re all still grieving the shocking loss of a man that meant a great deal to us. Even if he didn’t mean much to you.”
She stepped up to my side, gazing out the window at Levi. “He would’ve hit me.”
I shrugged. “If you had kept egging him on.”
“Didn’t my father teach you idiots not to hit women?”
I snickered. “Didn’t your mother teach you that if you pick a fight, you better be prepared to finish it?”
“Wow, so we hit women around here.”
I shook my head. “No, we don’t. But we also don’t treat women like princesses. If they swing, we swing back. That’s how shifters work things out. If they need to fight it out, then they pick a worthy opponent and they fight it out.”
“So, you’re telling me that Levi saw me as a worthy opponent.”
I chuckled. “You wish. All I’m saying is that Levi held back because he knows you weren’t raised with our ideals. But yes. He saw you as a worthy opponent. He wouldn't have come at you that way otherwise.”
She didn’t once look at me while she spoke. “If that’s supposed to be comforting—”
“It’s supposed to be educating.”
She whipped her gaze up to mine. “I don’t care to be educated. I’m just here to pass the time so I can go home.”
I turned my attention back out the window. “And in the meantime, we’ll do what Elias commanded. We will educate you so that you can make the best decision possible.”
She sighed. “I remember Levi being the reasonable one. Not you.”
