Chapter 55 Dishonesty

"You haven't learned to filter your thoughts yet. When she told you in the forest she had been the one to put the poison in our rooms, you opened a connection to me. I heard it all, your internal argument and her admission. I didn't tell you I knew because I was curious to see how you would handle me."

"Dishonesty is not a very alluring trait, mate," Rosette retorted, poking him in the chest.

"Neither is not trusting me," he said, reaching for an exposed pink nipple. Rosette jumped out of his way. There was no way she would be talking to him if he started to touch her.

"Why is she coming to talk to me?" she asked instead as he stalked her toward their bedroom.

"You said yourself you've seen abused humans, and Emily struck you as the same. We don't really have that problem here. No one else is going to know what to do with her."

He continued to speak and follow her as she coyly avoided him. "You don't have to worry about how the rest of the pack will treat her. Our forgiveness is absol