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“Exactly. You go moon mad, then you die. I once heard of this wolf who ripped out his own?—”
“Are we going or not?” Billy snarls. Vance snarls back, snapping his teeth.
“Billy’s just mad because he hasn’t gotten any since the last full moon,” Nickel snarks.
“And he hates talking mates,” Vance says.
“He hates most things.” Jake tosses his leftovers into the woods and bounces on his toes, ready for a fight.
“Enough,” I let out a growl. “We’ve still got the deal with Benson. We need to stay focused.”
That shuts them up.
“I’m going to run a bit longer,” Nickel says. “Join Sully on his border rounds.”
“Bring them with you,” I point to three youngsters who have figured out how to manipulate the nozzle of one of the kegs and are spraying each other with lager. “Make them dunk in the lake first.”
“Alpha.” Nickel inclines his head and lopes forward.
The rest of my top wolves disperse. All except for Billy.
I finish my steak and let the bone drop to the forest floor. I know why Billy’s hanging around.
After a few moments, he says in a low voice. “What happened earlier today? You left the office.”
Of course he fucking knows.
“My wolf needed to blow off steam after Adalwulf showed up.”
“You took your secretary.”
I shrug. “It was still a work day.” I leave it at that. An alpha doesn’t need to explain himself.
I’ve never kept a secret from my wolf brothers before, but once again, I find myself breaking the rules for Madi.
“I don’t trust her.”
“You don't have to trust her. She does her job.” My wolf isn’t satisfied with this. He wants to lunge at Billy, teach him to keep Madi’s name out of his mouth unless he’s speaking with respect. “Today, she entered the room. She read what was happening and did what it took for me to save face with the enemy.”
At the mention of Aiden Adalwulf, Billy’s lip curls. “That fucker shouldn’t even have been in our building.”
“It was one of his games. Our employee entered his lobby, so he invited himself over. I wasn’t about to turn him away at the door.” We’re not afraid of him.
I’m more concerned with what I’ll do to him if he ever looks at Madi again. Ripping out his eyes would only be a start.
And what would Madi think about that? She doesn’t know what I am. She’s human. She can’t know.
The world I live in is so different from hers, it might as well be in another galaxy.
“You concern yourself with closing this deal and solidifying our market dominance,” I tell Billy. “I’ll handle my assistant.”
ChapterTwenty-Two
Madi
I have an extra flounce in my step as I head out to work. I’m both nervous and excited to see Brick. We’re in uncharted territory. I didn’t know Wild Fling Madi existed, but she is on fire.
There’s a sleek black limo waiting for me at the curb. Tony the driver stands ready to open the passenger door.
