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I nodded. “Good.”
We could have invaded the Longroad pack’s territory, but their convoy would certainly include Nathan, and this way we wouldn’t have to wade through women and children to slaughter the pack’s leadership.
“This will be payback for both Brennan and Liam,” I mused.
My asshole father had handed Liam over to the Longroad pack as a hostage in exchange for their alliance. And yet, if he had been alive when they met, he never would’ve accepted a marriage alliance between Brennan and Amelia.
Brennan had challenged our father to bring Liam home. I’d thought he would always put our family first, but once he met Amelia, she’d been his top priority. She’d certainly been the only one Brennan gave a damn about when he abandoned us for her.
Guilt prickled in my stomach. It hurts to be angry at the dead. “Where the fuck is my useless little brother?”
“So hurtful,” Shaw drawled as he wandered through the library doors. He was barefoot and shirtless, wearing only jeans, his dark hair tousled. Some of Shaw’s many piercings and tattoos were on full display.
Cole came in behind him, looking exasperated.
“You couldn’t convince him to get dressed?” Teresa demanded.
“You get him out of Cynthia’s bed next time,” Cole shot back, dropping into the seat across from Teresa.
Shaw winked at Teresa. “Don’t pretend you don’t like the show, sweetheart.”
Teresa leaned across the table toward him, smiling. “Call me sweetheart again, and I will knife you in the groin.”
“With what knife?” Shaw shot back.
Cole groaned, rubbing his face with one hand. “Don’t encourage her. Teresa, don’t encourage him.”
Teresa had already pulled two blades seemingly out of thin air. I reached over and smacked her wrist, and she looked up at me with faux hurt written across her face before the blades vanished as swiftly as they’d been drawn.
“What are my rules for the library? No fighting and no fucking.” I glanced at Shaw, the reason for both those rules.
He offered me a beatific smile and leaned back in his chair, propping his bare feet on the tabletop. “You’d make a wonderful librarian, Stone. You missed your true calling when you became alpha. But I think Teresa is the one who would look sexy in a bun and glasses.”
“Shut up, or I’ll let her stab you.”
“Cynthia?” Teresa mused, looking slightly put out. “I thought you were sleeping with Lucy.”
“I have an open mind,” Shaw said airily.
“And a diseased dick.”
“Stop thinking about my dick, Teresa.”
“Enough,” I growled, letting some of my alpha power bleed into my voice.
Teresa leaned back, her cheeks coloring slightly as her gaze dropped to the table, and she nodded respectfully. Shaw smirked, but even he couldn’t meet my gaze and glanced away.
“Let’s get down to business,” I said, smoothing it all over. “We have people to kill.”
CHAPTER3
Amelia
That morning,I hurried to wash a load of laundry, clean the kitchen, vacuum and mop our enormous first floor. Nathan couldn’t stand a dirty house.
I dumped the mop water into the toilet of the guest bathroom and turned around to find Dylan standing in the doorway, still wearing his mud-streaked sneakers. Anxiety closed around my chest—the anxiety that felt like rage, that felt like being choked—and his eyes widened.
The flash of fear across my son’s face woke me up. He hadn’t caused my simmering anger and terror.
