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“Saige is ours. The only thing that has calmed my wolf in years is her,” I whisper. “My wolf knew she would give us what we needed. Not because she wanted anything in return, but because she cares. About me. About my wolf. And about Kade and Aden. She is ours, and we are hers.”
Saige tried to tell me when I woke up in her bed beside her. I refused to listen. She knew what my wolf needed—whatIneeded—better than I ever did.
“If you think fucking a whore is going to be enough to control your wolf…”
I blink and, suddenly, I’m staring out at the world through my wolf’s eyes as my body trembles with barely restrained killing rage. In one of the few times in recent memory, we want the same thing.
This man, dead at our feet.
“What did you call her?” My question is whisper-quiet.
He lifts his chin, trying to look down at me. “I said that—”
“What. Did. You. Call. Her?” There’s nothing remotely human in my voice. I need to control myself. Can’t afford to lose it, shift, and savage him with contractors just feet away. But I fucking want to.
My wolf snarls in my head, lending his fury because Saige isn’t just ours.
She is pack, and she’s family. No one speaks about my family like that and lives.
“As much fun as it would be to see you rip this fucker’s head off, we need to talk.” Kade’s voice drifts from somewhere behind me.
I don’t look away from the man who is no longer my father. No longer pack. No longer anything to me.
“I let you live twice. There won’t be a third time,” I say. He doesn’t respond. “Do you understand me?”
For the briefest of moments, his need to remind me that he’s the Alpha of the Desidarios nearly overwhelms him. I see the battle in his dark eyes when they flicker from wolf to man and back again. A long time ago, I was his heir, and he was my Alpha.
Not any longer.
“You will regret this,” he says in a voice vibrating with rage.
“The only thing I regret is not ripping your throat out when I found you fucking Claudine.” I swing around. “Kade, what did you need to talk about?”
Kade falls in beside me as we stride back toward the house.
Behind us, the gate screams open, and when Mateo Desidario’s raw leather and maple scent fades, I know he has left my home. Hopefully forever.
“Me? Oh, nothing,” Kade says, shrugging.
I slow as we approach the house and glance over at him. “Nothing?”
He nods. “Yep. Just had no desire to have ‘wrong numbers’ come along and inconvenience our day. He was Alpha of your former pack, right?”
I turn from the contractors banging and drilling to stare at Kade, surprise rippling through me. “You stopped me from killing someone because you thought it would cause a mess?”
H shrugs again. “And?”
I lose a little more of my killing fury. There are some things I’d expected from Kade. Things that usually leave behind a mess I have to clean up. This isn’t one of them. “Are you finally learning to use your brain?”
A dark scowl creases his face. “What the fuck do you mean,finally?”
“Dariel has a point,” Aden says, pushing the back door open and stepping out. “You like messes.”
Kade finds a tree to lean on, crosses his arms, and watches the contractors. “Not messes that come along when I have something planned for Saige. I don’t need someone fucking things up.”
Aden joins us outside, closing the door behind him. Dressed in a pair of blue jeans and a black sweater, he looks well-rested. His blond hair is still damp from a shower he must’ve had minutes before. Saige fell asleep in Aden’s arms after he told her about our shared past, and must still be napping. We’re still visible to the contractors, but with all their banging and drilling, I doubt they can hear us.
“Ah, you finally spoke to the cop?”
