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“No, notjustlike you expected,” he disagreed, and the realization he was right felt like the floor dropping out from under me. “I’ll never hit you, Amelia. You and Dylan are safe here.”
“That’d be a lot easier to believe if you weren’t holding me against my will.”
“Is it against your will?” His nostrils flared as his face dropped toward me, as if he were scenting me. “I can smell your arousal.”
“You’re a fucking monster.”
“And you’re a fucking liar.” He sounded amused now, not angry. “I’ll let you go when you tell me what you really want from me.”
“I told you. I need to make sure my family is safe.”
“Keep lying to me, it will definitely work out for you.” He chided.
This time when I shoved away from him, he let me go. He laughed as I stormed toward the door.
“You can’t goad me or trick me or flirt with me into doing anything I don’t want to do, Amelia. And I promise hurting you will never be on that list. I’m not Nathan.”
“What do you want from me?” I demanded.
“I don’t know,” he said, his jaw tense. “Can you go back in time five years and not fuck up my brother’s life?”
“Believe me,” I said. “If I could take back the day I met Brennan, if I could save his life, I would.”
I slammed the door behind me.
But when it was closed, I could barely believe I’d just yelled at Stone. What had come over me?
CHAPTER33
Amelia
Joshua was waitingfor me again. The path from the school was the one place I was ever alone…except for the wolf that watched over me. I didn’t even see him today, but I was sure he was there.
I didn’t want to talk to him about Stone. I couldn’t make sense of what happened when he and I argued. He’d shown up and watched me fight with Cole and Shaw and Teresa several times. I’d thought he might join us, but then he’d been gone when I looked back again.
“Hey.” Joshua fell into step beside me. “I want to talk to you about Stone.”
“Is that a good idea?”
“Is he following you? Is he hurting you?”
“No.” I didn’t think he would, either, but Joshua made me doubt that a little. “Has he ever hurt anyone before?”
“Stone killed my mother.”
“What?”
Joshua looked away. “I shouldn’t have told you that. Stone barely tolerates my existence in this pack.”
I wanted to ask what his mother did, then realized that sounded insensitive. “Why?”
“She dared to question him. I don’t know if you noticed this, but Stone doesn’t take very well to his authority being questioned. He thought she was disloyal, and so he…” He trailed off, shaking his head.
“I’m so sorry about your mother.”
“Thank you.” He grimaced as if it still hurt badly, even as he added, “She’s been gone a long time.”
“Is that why you’re willing to… help me?”
