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“Our parents are fucking idiots,” Ben says. “How long for dinner?”
The girls exchange a confused look, but Talia tells him they’ll be about fifteen minutes. Ben nods, and they return to the kitchen.
“I want you to tell me everything you know and everything you’ve been keeping from us,” Topher says.
Kyle frowns. “I can’t do that. I’m under an Alpha?—”
“Then we will break it,” Topher snarls, glaring at his brother-in-law. “We’re the current leaders of this pack?—”
“For a couple more days,” Cade says with a frown. “But when you blow everything apart, are you going to protect them?”
Topher nods. “I promise you now, the pack will be ours before the week is out.”
“That’s treason,” Brad says lightly.
“And highly punishable.”
Topher smirks, and Ben and Alex chuckle. Seb’s the only one of my guys who doesn’t react, since he’s still calming Phoebe down. My eyes flicker between each person, and I don’t know how to react.
“Trust me,” Topher says with a devious smirk. “There’s nothing they can do to me. I will be the alpha of this pack, and I won’t be sitting around letting rogue wolves infiltrate our lands.”
Kyle nods. “Good to know.”
“So, sit down, let us break this command, and you can fill us in on what has been happening in this pack beneath my nose.”
I don’t understand what happened, but the dynamics in the room have changed, and even the atmosphere. It’s super charged now, tingles at the back of my neck as I look into the determined faces of every man in this room.
It’s as if something is going to go down and it feels deeper than just taking the pack from their parents.
The confidence radiating from Topher is immense, though, and I’m content to bask in it.
36
MAIA
Phoebe’s upstairs in her crib, and I’ve got the baby monitor in my lap, the remainder of uneaten food on the plate in front of me. Ben had promised he’d eat as much of it as he could so that I didn’t offend Talia.
I told him it couldn’t be that bad, and that, no, I’d be fine. After a few mouthfuls, I absolutely begged him to eat it. He agreed, on one condition. And, strangely enough, I’m looking forward to him claiming it.
Our little game has clearly fallen to the wayside now with the anger simmering in the air between the siblings. The last person had barely put their fork down before the argument started, and it seems like the twins are on their parents’ side of this rogue argument, my mates are on the other, and their mates are just trying to calm everything down.
Aaron was smart enough not to speak back up after Iris told him he’s never here so doesn’t get to comment, and Ben backed it up.
I was smart enough never to even open my mouth in the first place.
This is one argument that I do not want to be involved in.
“She will never think you’re good enough,” Topher snarls, glaring at his eldest sister. I flinch, not sure who she is, but the hurt that fills Talia’s face is enough for me to know this was a horrid jab.
They were arguing over the pack issues that’s been happening and the dangers of it all. But now, he’s getting personal, and I have no doubt that Talia and Iris will return it.
They’re vicious, and angry, and so, so unhappy.
I can only feel Topher’s feelings, but they feel like a heavy weight on top of me. Not enough to drag me down, but enough that I’m full of sorrow and a desperate urge to soothe him.
Talia crosses her arms in front of her chest, her hazel eyes narrowed into slits as she sneers at her brother. “I’m not trying to gain her approval, brother. I am my own woman.”
“Oh, but you aren’t. You’re so pathetic, sniffing around, begging her to love you. The desperation pours from you, and it fucking stinks.”
