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Dante:

I stood up angrily and in alarm. This was a private meeting; the council had no right to enter here without permission.

I looked at Erica's face and she looked completely dumbfounded. Her eyes stared at me with many questions and I wasn't even sure how I was going to answer them.

“Alpha Dante, we need to talk…”

"No!” I snapped angrily at the head counselor. “This is an outrage and is highly disrespectful to me. I am having a meeting with a client and it is very important. If any of you even had an atom of decency, you would allow me to finish up with this meeting and I would attend to you."

The head counselor stared me down angrily. I had expected him to come to look for me after my little ordeal with Laura. He was her father, Counselor Kane, and I never really thought much of him. But now, he was crossing boundaries.

“Say what you want, Alpha, but I believe that the matter you have with the council is more important than whatever meeting you are having right now. The future of