KieranShe was still wearing it.That small, pleased thing at the corner of her mouth, the one she'd put there after she leaned in close enough to ruin my concentration and then stepped back like she'd lifted something off me clean. I knew exactly what she'd done.My fist closed at my side. My wolf was up and pacing under my skin, leaning hard toward the distance she'd opened on purpose, and I held still through it, because giving her that was the whole of what she was counting on.She tipped her chin up a fraction, and the message in it was plain enough. Your move, Alpha. We both know what it'll be.A knock hit the door, and I came near to flinching at it, which annoyed me more than the knock did. Silas's voice carried through the wood, my name and a question I didn't bother to take in. I kept my eyes on her.Her expression changed. A bright, quick thing moved through her eyes, because she thought the knock had handed her a way out, and she expected me to take it. She expected Alpha
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