|| THIRD PERSON's POV||Alaric was rigid, his arms loosely tensed at his sides, his eyes pinned on Alpha Jason. The tension between them was a rope pulled taut to breaking point.Jason's tone was filled with rage and incredulity. "She had no right to interfere," he told him, each word spoken crisply, almost with bite. His eyes creased at the corners as he looked at Alaric, as if searching for the slightest crack of control. "What did Reika do today—do you have any notion what this does to us? To all we've been trying to achieve?"Alaric's jaw tightened, but he wasn't ready to respond. He felt the throb of his pulse in his temples, the tightness of frustration and something else—guilt, maybe—pushing him. "She did what she did because she thought it was right," he spoke slowly, his voice husky but firm. "You might not approve, but she was not selfish."Jason let out a short, humorless laugh, though there was nothing amused in his expression. “Right thing? For whom, Alaric? For the pack?
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