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“Excuse me?”
She sighed. “In case she gets it into her head to attack you. I don’t know where she stands right now. Only Sebastian can feel out her allegiance. Go over there so I’ll have time to cut her down if she gets stupid. Please.”
“Well since you’re using your manners…” Sophia stepped back from the window just as Harper leaped up to the roof. The wolf shifters were a nimble bunch. Maybe it was the strength in their legs or something.
Harper climbed through the window and jumped down to the floor. She gave Ava a dismissing look and scanned the room, taking her time to settle her gaze on Sophia, as if she hadn’t known she was there.
“Why aren’t you fighting?” Sophia demanded, not beating around the bush. “Your alpha’s out there.”
“Jack is my alpha.”
Ava got in her face.
“Sebastian is Jack’s alpha and yours, and you know it. Are you saying you want to challenge that?”
Some of the heat died out of Harper’s attitude. “No, neither of us could beat Sebastian. I’m not saying we want to stand against his authority.”
“I asked you a question.” Sophia was tempted to get in her face as well, but she resisted. Harper might look like a skinny little chick with hair that was teased too big, but she was still a shifter. She could wipe the floor with Sophia. “Are you aligning with the others against your pack?”
Harper sneered. “Listen to you, talking like you’re one of us.”
“I’m Sebastian’s wife in case you forgot.”
“Funny, you weren’t talking like that when you came crying to us talking about he’s a monster.”
“Forget being careful.” Sophia stalked over to her and smacked her hard across the face. A red handprint stained her cheek. Harper growled low in her throat, and Ava shoved Sophia aside to face the woman.
“Try it,” Ava encouraged her. “Please try it so I can put you down. As far as I’m concerned you betrayed Sebastian and neither you nor Jack deserve to live.”
“Whatever! I’m sick of this.”
“Sick of what?” Sophia figured she wasn’t talking about the current situation.
Harper paced, but she didn’t try to get close to Sophia. “Why should I care if they come after you or if Sebastian gets hurt?”
“What did you do, Harper?”
“I didn’t do anything.”
“Jack then.”
She hesitated, but her anger got the best of her. “Jack told them it wasn’t Belle who betrayed them but you.”
Sophia gasped. “I’ve never done anything to you. Just because I didn’t go along with your plan to discredit Sebastian doesn’t mean you should plot to get me killed. I mean Sebastian sent Jack to get Belle, so he’s obviously not going to hurt him.”
Harper made a rude and very unladylike noise. “So what? We might as well be dead.”
“Meaning?”
“He took our house!” she whined. “We have to live in a trailer, and Sebastian says we have to pay our own bills. All this time he didn’t have any problem paying our way. Now he says he won’t even pay Jack’s cell phone bill.”
Sophia gaped at her. “You can’t be serious. You’re pissed off and vengeful because Sebastian is making you carry your own weight? He’s supposed to support you like you can’t make a living on your own? Are you freaking kidding me?”
She wasn’t done whining and feeling sorry for herself. “Sebastian has always been the favorite son, just because he was born first and by their father’s true mate. He got everything. He inherited the pack from his dad, who passed it down from their grandfather.”
“I thought they shared the same mother.”
Harper rolled her eyes and waved a hand. “Convenient lie.”
