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Why did he think he could just keep this s hit from me? Or that he could manipulate me like I was still a child?
Orion Constantine had given up the Alpha title to me. I wasn’t his f ucking puppet.
“You of all people should know what that looks like,” I roared. “You should know what kind of trouble that could get me in!” My father rolled his eyes.
“Have you forgotten who was Alpha first? I know what I’m doing Xander, and to be frank, it doesn’t concern you.”
I slammed my fists onto the table, my wolf surging to the surface.
“G ods, if one more f ucking person says that to me…”
Zane stood, slowly, and calmly interjected.
“I’m sure your father has good reason for holding back.” He turned to my father. “But if you could share, Orion, it would help all of us.”
My father barked out a short, mirthless laugh.
“Don’t even try to reason with me. No one would have known who Alice had been with if she hadn’t opened her big mouth and told you. So why don’t you sit back down and shut your mouth?
time.”
I saw red then.
Zane’s rage’ shot through my body, mixing with my own in a swirling lava rushing through my veins.
I stomped over to my father, his lips curling up in a smirk as I got closer.
He held up his hands.
“Leave it alone, Xander.”
“Like hell I will!” I snarled. “If it comes down to choosing between my reputation and you, I’m choosing my reputation every His face went stony.
“You’re not going to be the reason my pack stops respecting me,” I spat. “I’ll banish you and Alice before I let that happen. You won’t keep things from me anymore, Father. I won’t stand for it.”
He scoffed.
His lack of reaction was even more infuriating.
He was doing everything he could to remind me that my power was in his hands, and I wouldn’t stand for that.
“Are you sure about that, son? There are things you might not want to know. And once you find out, there’s no going back.” It was my turn to roll my eyes.
That was the understatement of the f ucking century.
“Oh, like what?” I challenged. “You don’t want me to know about vampires?!”
Zane’s head whipped around to face me, his eyes wide.
I hadn’t even had a chance to catch him up on everything Gustav had told me.
But now wasn’t the time to explain. “Or you don’t want me to know how you made a deal at the end of the Great Wars to make sure none of us knew vampires ever existed? Is that it?”
My father’s face drained of color.
I’d actually caught him off guard.
Asatisfied grin settled on my lips.
“You weren’t there!” he snarled, his wolf flashing in his eyes. “You have no f ucking clue what you’re talking about.”
He crept toward me slowly, his claws emerging as he did.
“I made you, son. I gave you this title whether you deserved it or not. And I can take it away…just like that.”
But I wasn’t ready to back down. I felt my own claws rip through my skin as I went to lunge at him.
“You f ucking-”
But suddenly my senses were overwhelmed with that same sp icy, ancient scent I’d smelled that day when we found Lanie by the lake.
i froze.
And then Braden rushed in.
Before I could turn my fury on him, before I could wrap my hands around his slimy little throat, he spoke.
“Lanie’s been kidnapped!”
Xander
I lunged, grabbing a fistful of Braden’s shirt and shoving him against the wall with one hand, while I reached for his neck with the other.
“What the hell did you do?!”
Gustav’s words were ringing in my ears as I squeezed his throat.
If he is seen again, he will be killed on the spot.
What would Gustav do if he found out the vampire he’d come to warn me about was inside our f ucking house? S hit.
Everything was already crumbling around me, and now Lanie was gone, too.
Asharp bolt of pain shot through my body.
“Tell me what you did!” I screamed at Braden.
“It wasn’t me,” he choked out. “It was Aldon.”
My grip loosened, and I could hear Zane’s voice break through my cloud of fury.
“Calm down and let him go. We need to know where Lanie is.”
I growled in response but released Braden from my grip.
“What does Aldon have to do with this?” I demanded.
once.
Braden rubbed absently at his neck, but I could tell I hadn’t actually hurt him.
pat He was stronger than he looked, but not stronger than me, and certainly not strong enough to take on three huge wolves at Braden glanced around the room at all of us. He was probably thinking the same thing.
“Aldon found us in the woods and used sleeping powder to take us out,” he explained. “When I came to, he and Lanie were both gone.”
I knew I should be more concerned with Aldon, but I was stuck on the idea of Lanie and Braden alone together. Again. So that’s where she’d gone when she’d run off after we slept together…
I thought she knew where we stood with her, that we just needed time to get Alice out of the way.
I thought she’d wanted the same thing we did.
Maybe we were wrong.
“What were you doing with Lanie in the woods?” I growled at Braden.
But my father stepped forward and spoke instead.
“The real question is, why the hell is Aldon conspiring with witches?”
Zane and I exchanged confused gla This was way too much to take in at once.
And why didn’t my father seem the least bit surprised to see a vampire standing in our f ucking dining room?
I narrowed my eyes at my father. “What do witches have to do with this?”
Braden spoke this time.
“It’s the only way he could’ve gotten the powder. It’s witch magic.” He waved his hand in the air. “But none of that matters right now. We need to find Lanie before Aldon makes his next move.”
There was an unmistakable twinge of fear in Braden’s voice. He was genuinely concerned for Lanie.
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