Threats and Consideration

Alexander

“I would have thought you'd be asleep by this time.” He chuckled. It grated on my ears.

“If you thought so, you wouldn't have called.” I replied smoothly, keeping the scathing anger inside.

“So you were expecting my call then?”

“My Beta informs me of every contact coming through the pack. You of all people should understand.”

He chuckled again as if I'd told a joke and it took everything in me to not crush the phone with my bare hands.

“Isn't that funny? My Beta has the tendency to run around, being in places he's not supposed to be in. He's quite a troublemaker you see.”

A knot formed in my gut. Of course, now he would mention Sirius.

He'd left the city anticlimactically after days of monitoring, less than a week after I'd moved Lily into my home. After his disappearance, there had been no other ‘incidents’, hunters or rogues or otherwise. His presence alone was proof of Marcus's actions yet now he was pinning it on Sirius being a ‘troublemaker’.

“Does that explain his p