Delicate Circumstances

ZADEN

I couldn't believe it. I thought I'd heard wrong. She watched me the way a big cat would watch it's prey and it made me realize that she wasn't messing around. She meant it. She had to be either insane or stupid. I suppose it couldn't be the latter because she was smart. She was the snake itself, the thorns on the rose stalk, the vines in the swamp. She was smart and crazy, and everything in between. That was why she was my mate.

I lowered myself onto my chair, my gaze still on her. She was expecting my answer. She was curious about what it would be. So, she waited. She waited like a snake waiting to strike.

"Do you have any idea what I did to become an Alpha? I killed my brother's mate. I tried to kill him but would have succeeded if I'd killed his friends as well. I killed my parents, Thalia. I killed more than twenty pack members who were in support of Jaden. Now, you're asking me to surrender the pack I've sacrificed so much in order to get? You're asking me to throw