Then, he walked past me as if he wasn't even going to wait for me to come up with an answer. Anger and frustration roiled off of him and stirred something in me: anger and pure indignation. "Where the hell do you get off getting on your high horse?" I hissed, stomping after him up the stairs to th
Grace "As alpha, the first thing we have to take care of is getting these vagrants from other packs out of our city!" Marvin's voice boomed through the crowd. His words were heavy with his usual sneering arrogance. "Starting with those half-breeds!" The cheers that followed his words only angere
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few," Marvin said. "A real alpha would do what's best for his pack." My eye twitched. "You have ten seconds to get out of my sight, or I'm going to have you arrested for trespassing--" "It's a public--" "And conspiracy!" I barked at him. "Ten..."
Grace My hands shook as I answered. "Grace?" I almost deflated at the familiar sound of Gabriels' voice on the other end. "Are you there?" "Yes... I... Sorry. I'm just..." "Under a lot of pressure. I saw it on the news, and I wanted to check in on you if you needed anything." I sniffled. "
Maybe the drug would have been done already, but would I have already been dead? Would I have ever come back to be alpha, or would Eason have just kept running it in my absence? I winced. As terrible as it was, I knew the answer to that: I would have let Eason keep running the pack and just hidd
Grace Eason and I locked eyes as I entered the conference room. The food was mostly gone. He had another popsicle in his mouth. There were papers everywhere. Amira was on the other side of the table with her laptop. "I could--" "I'm not running," I said. Amira glanced between me and Eason as
Margaret gestured to the table. "You've burned bridges with Eason so many times, and it's always Eason who rebuilds it." "That's not true!" "See. Liar." "Did you send him Festival gifts? Birthday gifts after you basically kicked him out of his family home for Devin?" My face heated. "I didn'
Grace It had taken an hour after I woke Eason up to get to the right person in the police forces to activate the curfew protocols. I didn't even know those existed until tonight. I thought Eason would go back to sleep after it was done, but he just settled at the table on the back patio in the col