Big Bad Alphas
"She's downstairs. She can't see me like this."
"You have to calm down."
"How can I calm down when my Mate thinks I'm attracted to someone else! How can I calm down when I ruined everything!"
"You're being dramatic," she rests her hand on my arm, over the red mark. "But—wait, he grabbed you here?"
"Who cares, I have to apologize, I have to—"
"He grabbed you, Isabella, roughly. That's not okay."
I look at her with hard eyes. "He didn't mean to. It wasn't like that," I cover the mark," how can you say that?"