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Slumping against the open window, I sucked the fresh air in, still horrified by what happened.
"You're concerned about her when I'm the one bleeding?!"
"Did you want her vomiting in your wounds?"
"What's going on?" Hymn appeared in a slinky dress from the set. "What the hell?"
"Shift and heal," Jeremy ordered.
"Fuck that, let our alpha see what his bitch is capable of doing."
Shaking her head at Howard, Hymn started back to the set. "I'll call him, but you want to have a good reason for refusing a direct order from your beta."
"You're pathetic," Jeremy growled, walking away from Howard.
"You're all blind not to see she's a problem. Just because she's full-blood doesn't make her a nice person. She destroyed her last pack, and she'll destroy ours too."
Gripping his hair in his fist, Jeremy scowled. "How?"
Watching Jeremy, I suspected this wasn't the first time he heard this rant. "She's mated. Her pheromones only call to her mate. My instinct is no longer to mate with her, but to protect her."
"Mine haven't changed."
Jeremy glared at his cousin. "Which makes me wonder about your loyalty."
Mouth falling open, Howard paled. "What do you mean?"
"You still desire our Alpha's mate; that's not her pheromones but your jealousy. You disobeyed a direct order from me, twice, today. The only way that could happen is if you have betrayed your pack, and your connection to us is waning."
A gasp behind us alerted us to Hymn's return. "Oh, Goddess! What did you do?"
Eyes flicking to me, thoughts flashed across Howard's face like a neon screen.
The impact was a sledgehammer to my chest. "You told Malcolm I was alive."
A growl near the door warned us that Dale had walked in unnoticed and heard enough. Stealing the oxygen from our lungs, Dale's rage blew through the room like a firestorm.
Sinking to the floor, I hid behind my knees, trembling as I watched my very pissed off alpha breeze into the room. Jeremy and Hymn were backing up, Jeremy placing himself in front of Hymn and me.
Grabbing Howard by the throat, Dale lifted him into the air. "Why?"
"She was driving us crazy and driving us away from our home. I was waking up outside her house, trying to find a way into her. I was going crazy, needing to take her, but your orders refused to let me. She was a constant ache, and it was killing me. She was killing me, killing our pack. She had to go."
Dropping Howard, Dale snarled in disgust. "What did you tell him?" There was an undercurrent in Dale's voice which threatened violence. I hid my head between my knees like I was on a plane about to crash.
"That his bitch was still alive and making herself comfortable with a new alpha."
My head snapped up, teeth and jaw itching to run over there and rip his throat out. Dale's will brushed over me, placating me with his pride of my eagerness, but ordering me to stay.
"Idiot!" Jeremy seethed. Despite his outward calm appearance, we could all feel Dale's rage.
Goddess, Dale looked so sexy in that suit, all that power and strength radiating off him. Tempting me to crawl to him and wrap myself around his muscular thigh, and breathe his scent into me.
Dale's golden eyes turned towards me. "Not now, Sweet Pea."
Pouting, I saw Dale's lips twitch like he was trying not to laugh. His anger hesitated as if distracted. Glancing at me, Dale raised a brow.
"Oh, sorry." Placing my forehead on my knees, I tried to keep my mind on Howard's betrayal. "Perhaps, I should leave?"
