“Ding!”The notification sound from the microwave went off, snapping the two out of their hazy stage.“Damn it.” Marcus cursed under his breath, not wanting to leave Giselle’s side as the omega scent just got him under his spell. He felt like her enchanting eucalyptus scent of Giselle around him suddenly turned into a deep blue sea that pulled him in, drowning him in its intense aroma.But Marcus was willing to drown in it. Marcus was so ready to lose himself in it.Even Marcus’s inner wolf yearning for it, too. It felt disappointed when Marcus stopped in his track.Not only did Marcus and his wolf feel disappointed, but Giselle and her wolf did also, too.Nonetheless, the omega knew she was not ready for them to take things further than this.“Is mom seeing the guy?” Marcus reluctantly let go of Giselle to get his pizza.His God damn pizza! It suddenly did not look so appetizing

“Hospital?” Lady Bailey asked. She sounded surprised, “Did anything happen?” Did Marcus get hurt, or was it, Giselle? Far as she knew, there were no fights or encounters that happened after the event of Toby, Ben, and Raiz. So why did Marcus have to be at the hospital? On the other end, Marcus knew he had screwed up. The alpha knew Lady Bailey hold a grudge against the Brown. She had made sure to tell Marcus that she despised of them. Such a relief that she did not feel hate or hold her grudge against Giselle! Long story short, Lady Bailey should not know about the Browns were here, at their hospital. “Oh, I come to see Fynn. He’s never been around anymore,” Marcus quickly thought of a reason to make his presence at the hospital sound gullible, “I have to go now. Fynn’s here.” Without waiting for Lady Bailey to return his words, Marcus briskly turned off his phone, throwing it to the side, he let out a heavy sigh. “Tsk,

“Tina, who is she?”Marcus repeated himself, demanding an answer.Tina looked up at him. The omega bit her lips and then turned aside, “No one.”Marcus would not buy her words.“Who are you trying to cover for? Who forced you?” The alpha needed to know.The omega kept on shaking her head in denial, crying, “Don’t force me! I can’t say it!”Marcus pursed his lips at her. Anxious grew within himself each second passed by.“Marcus, my dad has been through a lot. The least I can do for him is to keep my mouth shut! He can’t handle anymore.” Tina started to hiccup. Her words sounded broken.The head alpha furrowed: “Tina, do you want me to help you?”Tina, with her eyes all teary, and her nose as red as a tomato, once again kept her head down. Her shoulders were slightly shaking. The head alpha looked at this and thought to himself that

“What?”Giselle pretended like she did not know what was Derek talking about.The Luna quickly turned away. She changed the subject, “Let’s go! We should be there on time!”But Derek did not let her get away. The man held Giselle back by her arm, he said, “Whatever bothering you, if you could let it out, it would be so much easier to handle.”Giselle clenched her teeth. She did not turn around. The Luna nodded, “I know. But it’s nothing, really.”Derek stayed quiet for a while. After he affirmed that Giselle would not tell him anything, he let go of her.“Giselle, you should know that I’m your friend. I cared for you. If anything bothers you, let me know. I’ll lend you an ear, maybe an arm, too.”The Luna nodded, finally turning around. She looked at Derek, and smiled reluctantly, “Maybe I’ll need you to drive.”She was not sui

“What?”Giselle felt caught off guard by Lukas's sudden statement.He had already paid them back? What was it?“What do you mean?” Giselle furrowed. The Luna did not understand what did this alpha say.But then, she suddenly remembered what her mom had said.Edsel Brown and his family had been accused of misleading the pack members. They had failed to meet the members’ hope of growing in both strength and financial. Most importantly, his right-hand Tery was caught red-handed lurking around the Ashes pack territory.Giselle bit her lips, thinking was it true that the pack her mom had been banished from, and the pack Lukas wanted her mom to come back to was the Ashes pack?Lukas said the alpha had done for Giselle and her mom a payback, with everything that happened recently at the Brownson pack, one was the misleadings, failure of being a head alpha; one was invading another pack’s territory. Giselle