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Using my shoulder, I force myself past them and head down the hallway. “I said you could go.”
“And you think that’s a good idea, do you?” Kade asks, his voice revealing that he’s no more than two steps behind me.
“Yes, I do.”
And I even believe it until I take my first step out of the hallway and see the state of the main room. It was bad before, but two wolves fighting has made the mess a thousand times worse.
I look at it and wonder if I shouldn’t have stayed out of Kade’s fight with the shifter until they’d brought the bar down so we could just start over.
Where the fuck to begin?
“I’m surprised you were able to change back so soon,” Aden says.
So soon?
“Guess the wolf got bored with laying on an office floor,” I say, still trying to work out how long I was a wolf. Usually, it takes three or four days before either I regain control of myself so that I can shift, or my wolf gets bored with destroying the office. The worst it’s been has been five days.
With no windows in the bar, and only the artificial overhead lights, it could’ve been three days or a week since I lost control.
“Is that why you think you shifted back?” Kade asks.
I turn to face him. He’s naked. I noticed it before, but now I wonder if this isn’t him shoving what he and Saige were up to down my throat. “Well, since you sound like you know more than I do,” I bite out. “Perhaps you could impress us all with how brilliant you are.”
A smile stretches across his face, one that makes me itch to punch it off him. “You’re not stupid, Dariel. Maybe try putting two and two together and see what you come up with.”
There’s just enough of a taunt in his voice that nearly makes me go for him. And as if he reads the intent in my eyes, his smile grows, darkening with anticipation.
Spinning around, I stalk toward the bar, and the broom I have vague memories of leaving around there. “It’s got nothing to do with her.”
“I didn’t think you were stupid, but the things coming out of your mouth are making me seriously doubt your intelligence,” Kade murmurs.
My wolf snarls and I snarl back. “She has nothing to do with me shifting back.”
When my wolf is silent, I reach for the broom before I realize it’s broken in three places. Fuck.
“You honestly think that staying your out-of-control self for a single night instead of three or more days has nothing to do with the woman who you lunged at?” Kade’s tone is all mockery. “Nothing at all?”
One night? He’s lying. He has to be lying.
“Yes, that’s what I’m saying.”
“Well,I’msaying your wolf might be regretting it and wants the man to go and apologize. Maybe the woman is having as much of an effect on your wolf as—”
“She is nothing to us!” I roar. “She’s just a homeless girl that Aden is desperate to save. So fuck her to your heart's content, Kade, and shove some money in her hand, but send her the fuck away from here when you’ve gotten your fill.”
The silence is almost painful.
Kade folds his arms across his chest, looking bored. “You mean like you tried to do?” his eyes go to the cash-strewn floor.
“She goes.Today. I don’t care where, but I don’t want to fucking see or smell her again. Be grateful it’s the man saying this and not the wolf because if she stays—” I give them both a long look “—you know what will happen. So you tell me who’s being stupid?”
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SAIGE
Istare up at the ceiling, my ears still ringing from the roar coming from somewhere downstairs.
She’s nothing.
