Mated To My Beta Stepbrother
“I do not need you to defend me from that accusation, Killian. I need you to trust that I am going to defeat it myself, in that room, with the evidence and without any help from the response he is trying to provoke you into.”
He was quiet for a long moment and I held his face and waited, and through the bond I felt the battle happening underneath the surface of his stillness, the wolf and the mate and the Beta all pulling against each other until something in the tension shifted, not resolved but redirected, the specific change that happened when a person decided to choose the harder option because they understood why it was the right one.
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