CHAPTER NINETEEN

PATRICK

I cannot believe what has just transpired.

Rylie, my mate, my one true love, has betrayed me.

She has taken my friends prisoner.

Why? For what?

She said there was an explanation, but what can she possibly say to justify locking up a teenager?

She is too loyal to her pack.

She is trying to have both.

Them and me.

But it does not work that way.

We are enemies.

She has to choose.

I cannot have her playing me while she tries to find a way to have both.

It's too cruel.

She said she was sorry.

But she is not.

She is a liar.

I was truly hurt by what she deceived me with.

I trusted her, and she used that trust to fool me.

I cannot believe she is putting the needs of her pack over me.

I am her mate.

She is putting the pack over me.

And that scent...

It was all over her. The scent of an alpha. She has been up close and personal with him, I am certain. And I saw the look in her eyes when I challenged her on it.

My entire body is tense with anger.

All I see is re