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Fool - 8
All my worrying about Father catching us outside the room with Dean was pointless. Father didn’t come to see me until almost nine in the evening. “So how did everything go?” I asked when he sat in the window seat.
“The usual humdrum. That girl, Alice, she’s not giving up on her silly ideas concerning the rogues,” he replied as he narrowed his eyes at me.
My throat tightened as he continued to stare. “What?”
“I should ask you that,” he said in a gruff bark. “What did I do to deserve such betrayal from my family and those I most trust?”
Uh-oh. “W-what do you mean?”
Father scoffed, and the glare turned downright glacial. “I’m no fool,
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I couldn’t believe Father attacked Dean and, what’s more, lost. How did Dean beat him? I shook my head, forcing myself to focus. That didn’t matter. What did matter was what we were going to do next. “Okay, so Father is detained and Dean isn’t hurt. Where does this leave us?” I asked, pacing back and forth.“I’m not sure how long the alpha plans to detain your father, but when he releases him we are to leave and never return.”My throat tightened at the words. Emotions I didn’t understand flooded through me. Closing my eyes, I took a moment to shove them down. I didn’t have time to understand what I was feeling. The pack needed me. I lifted my chin and squared my shoulders. I had to be strong right now. Opening my eyes, I blew out a breath before focusing back on Wesley. “Alright, this is w
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Alpha Brent sat in his chair, leaning forward with his elbows resting on the top and fingers steepled as he listened to me. “I understand, Nicole, but the laws are very clear. Challenges are made from alpha to alpha, meaning alpha males only. It’s an outdated thing going back to the days where our women died so often in childbirth before passive silvering rose the survivability rate.”I wanted to growl and slam my fist against the desk. Dean laid his hand on my knee and gave it a quick squeeze. I let out a breath and forced myself to focus on finding a solution. “There has to be something. We have women leading packs fine or is it until some guy decides he wants to be alpha and since women don’t count for crap, they have to step down?” Hell, his niece by mateship was leading her pack alone for a whole year before she mated Mike Howe.
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