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Blood poured out of his nose. His magic rose to meet mine, his anger taking over after his shock that I’d pushed him over.
For a moment, the room was drenched in the magic of the bear and the magic of the lion.
“Back down, Cal,” I ordered. “You don’t want this to be a fight to the death.”
“You can’t keep acting like you control everything; you’re not even family.”
The blood that poured out of his nose bubbled around his lips when he talked.
“I’m alpha, and that means Icancontrol everything. As for family—what the fuck would you know about it? All you care about is yourself.”
“Fuck you,” Cal spat at me.
“On second thought,” I growled, “let’s fight it out, if that’s what you want so badly. Getting rid of you and your fucked up outlook on life once and for all sounds like just what I need right now.”
“Braxton,” Dagger said from the side.
I hesitated, ready to take Cal’s head off, but Dagger was right.
I let my foster brother go, but not before I slammed him into the ground. Cal whined and curled onto his side, pushing his hands against his nose. I heard him click the broken bone back into place so it would heal straight.
“Fuck you, man,” he wailed.
I stormed out of the room.
“Where are you going?” Dagger called after me.
I didn’t answer him. I was fueled by my rage. I’d just heard what I’d expected to be true all along, and it was time to enforce the law in my town. I’d been so serious about making sure I knewwhereeveryone was, that they didn’t get in trouble because of the bullshit that followed me. I’d grown lax when it came to the other rules. It was time to remind my people what was right and wrong around here.
I stripped off my clothes and shifted, running into the forest. I made my way down the mountain. I was too fucking angry to take the car—that was how people wrote themselves off—and I had all this magic I needed to do something with.
When I reached the edge of town, I headed toward Owen’s Pub. I knew they would be there—it was Lennox’s watering hole.
I could hear them talking and laughing and drinking in the shifter bar when I approached. There were no humans around these parts of town. I wasn’t in danger of being seen. Even if I was, right now, I didn’t give a shit. I had business to take care of.
When my lion walked into the bar, filled with shifters, the conversation stopped, and someone shut the music off.
I shifted into human form. My skin still trembled with magic and fury, and when I made eye contact with every shifter around me, they turned their eyes down in respect and deference to my authority.
I walked to Lennox where he sat at the bar with his buddy.
“Alpha,” Lennox said, bowing his head. “What can I do for you today?”
“I hear you’ve been talking about your close call with a rabbit shifter,” I said, my voice so deep, it was a growl.
“What?” Lennox asked. “I thought you already knew about Inigo.”
“I knew about Inigo,” I said. “I didn’t know you were bragging about taking what you wanted without getting consent.”
“Excuse me?” Lennox asked. He frowned as if confused, but his eyes were large with fear, rolling around to Rex.
“We were just having some fun, Alpha,” Rex spoke up. “You ever come across a dame you just wanted?”
I saw red. It wasn’t just about the fact that they were going to take a woman against her will. This wasKinleythey were talking about. She wasmine.
“We don’t disrespect and dominate females in my town,” I growled. “It looks like some of you have forgotten how to be decent. We’re not fuckinganimals.”
Rex spoke up. “Technically, we are.”
