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I raised a brow as he pressed her thumb to the home button, and he rolled his lapis eyes at me.

“She dropped it when you snatched her. There are text messages coming in from Anna, but we need her fingerprint to unlock it.”

I groaned, throwing my head back to glare at the innocuous clouds floating in the sky. “Can’t we just kill her already too? I should have done it at the party.”

He frowned, shoving the phone into my hand.

Anna: Is it done?

Anna: Is the mage dead?

Anna: We can’t kill the others if Lynch is still alive.

Anna: We could inject them, though. Then we wouldn’t have to kill them. It’d add an extra week to our timeline, but they wouldn’t be a problem anymore.

Anna: Why didn’t we think of that before?

Anna: Katie? Wtf?

Anna: On my way.

I wrapped my hand around Katie’s phone, squeezing until the screen cracked. Closing my eyes, I inhaled slowly as I wrestled with my control.

The past few weeks really had been testing my patience, and this was the last fucking straw.

The one that broke my back.

The one that showed me how far I was willing to go.

She would have to kill me before she got the chance to dose my mates with that fucking drug.

And she had no idea just how eternal I truly was.

16

Sloane

Friday, June 5th

Night

Performance anxiety was not something I was accustomed to, but gods… I was feeling it right now.

I glared around the lawn in front of the pack lodge, cursing myself for pretending like I was actually interested in going on a hunt to begin with. Deer and rabbits weren't the kind of animals I had an appetite for.

Briggs propped his chin on the top of my head, his hands encircling my waist as he and Baylor jested with each other.

No one approached us.

At first, I couldn’t help wondering if it was the intimidating size of the Elliott brothers or my resting bitch face.

Then I realized the faction alphas were all pissed. Not that I cared, but it was hard to block out their thoughts when they were practically screaming them at me.

They didn’t like that Briggs and I would lead the hunt with the Supreme Alpha. They were angry that he was passing his title on to such a young mated couple.

It was an outrage to them.

It didn’t matter that, prior to the last two decades, the Supreme Alpha position had been shared between a bonded pair. And though, technically, Charlie King had a mate, she’d not been present.