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“You came down here during your solo exploration yesterday; I take it?” I asked, drawing her honey-brown eyes back to me.
“Yeah.” She nodded. “This was the farthest of the house I got to, actually. I wanted to explore more but was interrupted by a couple of pests.”
The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end at the way she spat the word pest. A wave of annoyance washed over me, stealing the smile that Diego had given her.
“What happened?” I clutched my fist tight, trying to contain my anger at the thought of someone approaching her without me present.
“Probably nothing, just a couple of girls and some things they said.” She frowned, turning away from the child-filled room to explore the first floor deeper.
I caught her elbow, swung her around, and pressed her back to the wall. My eyes pierced into hers, looking for the answers to yesterday's events.
“What happened.”
“Were you engaged to be married before I asked you to help me?” she asked. The question startling me at the pure absurdity of it.
“What? No! Why would I have agreed to help you like this if I was engaged to someone else?” I asked.
“You didn’t promise anyone the title of Luna when you became Alpha? Didn’t lead any of the pack’s she-wolves into thinking they had a future with you?”
A scoff left my lips, realizing just what had happened yesterday. “Katya,” I growled.
“The fact you know who I’m talking about doesn’t exactly help your case,” she growled back, narrowing her eyes.
She tried to slip from under my arms, but I swept her back against the wall, keeping her caged between my arms.
“Katya and I have never been a thing. She’s been spreading rumors that we were destined to be ever since she learned I was the Alpha Elect. But aside from her lies, nothing has ever happened between us. I hardly ever spoke to her outside of small talk at pack events.”
I watched as Paige visibly relaxed, her stiffened shoulders dropping back down as she released a deep breath. “So, Chase was right then,” she sighed.
“Chase?” I growled. “What does he have to do with anything?"
“He stepped in when Katya and Dasha were ganging up on me. He told me that Katya was a power-hungry bitch and to ignore anything she or her sister had to say. They’re lucky he stepped in when he did, or they would have been ice pops.”
I frowned, feeling unease from her threat and the idea of Chase being the one who had come to help her, even if his words had been in my defense. “What exactly did he step in on?”
Paige shrugged, looking away from me. “It was nothing. Just mean girl bullshit. Nothing new under the sun.”
I pinched her chin between my finger and thumb, returning her head to look me in the eyes.
“Paige, what exactly happened? Why did he have to step in?”
I needed to know exactly what happened.
Paige rolled her eyes and sighed deeply before looking at me. “Dasha was going to hit me with a partially shifted claw. Chase grabbed her wrist out of nowhere, telling her that she must have had a death wish and some stuff about what you would do if you had found out she hurt me. But he really didn’t need to stop her. I was ready for it. She never would have touched me with her clawed hand; I was prepared.”
“She was going to cut you?” A deep growl rumbled in my chest at the mere thought of someone harming Paige. An unwelcome helplessness was crushing my stomach at knowing I had still been in the bathroom at the time.
“She was going to try,” Paige scoffed. “But I’m telling you, she wasn’t going to so much as touch a hair on my head. I’m not some helpless human. I can hold my own in a fight.”
“That’s not the point,” I growled. I moved to push myself off the wall, my instincts telling me to hunt the two bitches down here and now and eliminate the threat they posed to my mate and unborn child. The law against harming a pack member would still apply even if they hadn't known she was expecting.
Paige grabbed my arm, pulling me back to her, her hands suddenly cupping my face as she forced my eyes back to hers. “Calm down,” she growled at me, her voice nearly as feral as a true she-wolf.
“I am calm,” I replied, ignoring how the world came through in a hazy red tone.
“Then why are your claws and fangs out?” Paige countered, tightening her hold on my face when I tried to pull away. “If I need your help, I will ask for it just like I asked for your help with the stalker. I do not need your help with this. Mean girls, be they werewolves, humans, witches, or vampires, are my battle to fight. Not yours. And that is all Katya and her sister are. A couple of mean girls. I got this.”
Gradually, the red in my vision faded. The claws which had been forming returned to human hands. I could feel the sharp tips of my canines receding. Paige slowly smiled at my regained control, her thumb tracing circles on my cheeks.
