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Mikel’s eyes blazed a brilliant gold. “Did my father hurt anyone?”
“Please,” Kane begged. “I’ve taken care of this community for twelve years.”
A growl rumbled from Mikel’s chest.
“No, he didn’t, he didn’t. I’m sorry—”
She didn’t see him change. One moment Mikel was standing there, the next it was the wolf. Violet barely had time to look away before the screaming started, then abruptly stopped. The square was quiet enough she could hear Mikel’s heavy breaths.
“Lower your weapons,” he commanded a second later.
Around them, the confused guards, half of whom still had their weapons loosely trained on him, slowly came to stand at ease.
When he turned to her and held out his hand, it was stained with blood like his chin and his chest. Violet stepped forward and took it anyway.
“Elias Davis was innocent,” Mikel decreed when he had pulled her to his side. The energy radiating off him buzzed through her, and Violet grew giddy, the lingering effects of the gunshot wound gone. Teeth scraped her mark, and she felt her eyes change. She looked up at him through amber vision. His chin lifted, and his jaw finally unclenched while he squared his shoulders and said, “I’m Mikel Davis, son of Elias Davis, mate of Violet Davis. I’m the rightful alpha of the Forest Bluff pack.”
One by one, the heads in front of them in the crowd and to the sides of them with the council and guards all bowed.
Chapter Fifteen
“DAD!”
Mikel’s declaration had settled around the square, and it was slowly coming back to life. Subdued surprise still hung in the air when Tim appeared at the edge of the center space. The guards caught him before he could get closer.
“What the—Dad?” His gaze was hard when he looked up from the body of his father to Mikel, his eyes golden. “You killed him?”
“Get him out of here.” Mikel tipped his chin, and the guards tugged Tim back while he fought their grip, red faced and furious.
“You fucking killed him!” He kicked and pulled and tried to yank himself free. His stream of profanity got fainter as they dragged him away.
Mikel unbuttoned his shirt and stepped unflinchingly up to Kane’s bloody form. He spread the dark fabric over his head and torso. It was wrong, but Violet’s gaze clung to him, the thick muscles in his back and strapped across his shoulders.The alpha. Something inside her that she was starting to recognize as the wolf surged and sighed at the sight of him and the energy between them changed to want.
He turned and caught her gaze like he’d heard the thought. The eye contact was hot enough to melt her, and Violet’s vision went amber a few seconds before his eyes turned gold.
“Your…husband is a werewolf?”
Violet understood from her sister’s voice there was more than one thing she struggled with in that sentence. It was almost painful to drag her eyes from him, to deny the primal thing inside that called to him, to look at Lila instead.
“Yeah, kid.” She noticed the wariness on her face at the sight of her eyes. “Me and you too, though neither of us are turning into giant, fluffy dogs.”
Mikel grumbled from behind her, a low, rough sound that made her embarrassingly hot and forced her to shift her weight, pressing her thighs together.
“This place makes no sense,” Lila said, thankfully none the wiser to the near combustion inside her.
“I can help with that.” Margie appeared beside them. “I’d like very much to get to know you, Miss Lila.”
Violet was torn in two by the need to keep her sister close now she’d finally got her back and the need to go to Mikel, who had slipped into conversation close by with the council members, but she knew he was hovering, waiting for her.
“I…uh…” Lila looked to Violet for guidance, visibly unsure about the strange old lady she’d only met an hour ago, who’d shot her sister.
“How about you help Margie get home, and we’ll come by and get you in an hour or two, lots of cleanup to happen here.” She gestured lamely around the square, hoping her real intent wasn’t obvious, and this didn’t make her the shittiest sister in the world. Violet loved Lila, she’d missed her terribly, but sheneededMikel, the alpha. Her teeth were on edge with the urgency of it.
“Back in my day the alpha bred for the whole pack,” Margie piped up, a vicious twinkle in her eyes. “It was an event. We brought popcorn, and there was a betting pool on the birthday and gender of the heir. I was only three days shy of winning on Mikel.”
Lila looked sideways at the old woman, cheeks pinking as she processed the words.
“Okay, time to go.” Violet ushered them both in the direction of Main Street.
