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“We’re still the leaders of this pack,” Lucas interrupted. “You’d do well to remember that.”
“For your information,” Declan began, “effective this morning, Killian’s standing in the pack has been temporarily suspended.”
“Good—”
“And effective immediately,” he continued over Phillip, “my brothers and I are taking a leave of absence from the pack for twenty-four hours. In our absence, our mother is resuming her position as leader of the pack.”
My jaw fucking dropped. I had every expectation that my brothers would handle it, not hand it over to Mom.
“Thank you. Now, you,” Mom said. Oh, shit. Mom was going to fucking kill him. “Had I known years ago what you were, I would’ve dealt with your ass immediately!”
“What I am—”
“You will be quiet when I’m talking to you,” she growled. I sank my teeth into my bottom lip to keep from laughing. The sick and twisted part of me was thrilled to hear Mom taking it out on him. “Your time for talking is done. If I hear a fucking word out of you, I’ll rip your throat out myself.”
“Do we have a plan for what to do when Mom kills him?” I leaned forward to whisper to Declan.
“I was under the assumption she wouldn’t,” he admitted quietly. I was so fucking excited to hear her do this.
“Effective immediately, you are no longer a member of the Byrne pack. You will never be welcome in my town again,” Mom snarled. Phillip tried to speak, but a deafening growl ripped through Mom. Shit, she was fucking scary. “I said no talking! You are not fucking welcome here! You are not welcome in any pack ever again! You are a fucking disgrace to wolves everywhere. We are family! We take care of our own! We protect our own! And what you did to those little girls…”
Mom faltered, her back going rigid, and I fucking tensed. If there was ever a time she would shift uncontrollably with emotions, it was this moment. Mom had a soft spot for children who needed protecting—something we all understood, considering what she’d been through.
“You have one week to get your shit and get out of my town,” Mom snarled finally. “One week! That’s it. And you will never call my girls again. You will not talk to them, and you will not see them. If I find out that you’re bothering them, I’ll kill you myself, Phillip. I’ll scatter pieces of your fucking body so far in the woods they’ll never fucking find all of you.”
“Fuck, you really are Mom’s kid,” Declan muttered.
I didn’t answer, but I was fucking grinning. Damn straight I was.
“You have no right—”
“I have every right!” Mom hollered, her voice thick with a growl as her wolf joined in. “They were children! Your children! You were supposed to protect them! Not hurt them! Make sure he gets off my property.”
Mom stormed right past all of us, blazing fucking mad and leaving the lot of us speechless. We’d all seen her mad—or so we thought. But fuck. Mom was a goddamn wildfire.
I stared at her retreating back as she went straight to the living room, no doubt to speak to Genevieve. There was a kind of sadness that ebbed its way into my chest. What would her and Gabby’s life have been like if I’d opened my fucking mouth when I found out?
“Nolan!” Finn shrieked.
I whirled on my heels fast enough to catch the moment Nolan punched Phillip—or tried to. It was a crappy fucking punch, but he landed it nonetheless.
I gasped.
Declan gasped.
Sam burst out laughing.
Lucas damn near lost his jaw to the floor.
Finn threw his hands up.
And sweet fucking Nolan howled as he shook out his hand.
Nolan fucking Byrne hit a goddamn pastor.
“Oh, God! I broke my hand!” he exclaimed, practically dancing in place. The hit shocked Phillip, but I knew enough to know shit would hit the fan fast.
“Get him out of here,” I ordered while hurrying to get Nolan. I swept him right back into the house.
