Chapter One Hundred and Sixty Seven

“What the fuck do you think you are doing?” Axel asked, and he was mad. I felt it in the bond we shared; I saw it in his eyes too,

“I am doing the right thing.”

He inhaled sharply; he knew I was right, yet he didn’t like this, not one bit. “You had to do that before all those people?” he questioned, even though he already knew why I had done that too.

“She would be safer this way.”

“You can’t let her go; we can’t–you would go in there and tell her it was all some kind of expensive joke, and you’ve changed your mind.

When Axel was mad, he seemed to forget who the Alpha was and where his place was, but I let it slide; he had the right to be angry.

“Axel, listen to me. She is no longer safe here; there are many who want to hurt her to get to

me

some of them are in this pack; You know that if there was any other way, I would have chosen that.”

“And do you think there wouldn’t be others out there who want her dead top? She can’t be on her own,” he says, and he might be right.

“She managed to stay alive all these while in the Windborne pack; she would survive.”

“Tell me that you would send soldiers along with her.”

They would figure it out that this was only an act; I would have to make them see that I’ve moved on completely from

to a fight before, but now I could see

You find

want anyone; I could never look at any girl that wasn’t

are dangerous; I killed their members and had been about to wipe them out of the face of this earth if they hadn’t escaped; think about what they would do to Riley if they ever got their hands on her.” I flinched; I didn’t want to think about it. Bailey was one of the most powerful elders I knew, and yet they had exploited her femininity. The tortures she

Axel seized trying to

“It’s just…”

she

One Hundred and Sixty Seven

her,” I completed; my voice sounded

I do love her?, What if I think you don’t

would

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(RILEY POV)

I didn’t

be Jake seeking my

spoke on. “You are a

I appreciate your very kind words,” I said

pack house just as Thane had said. My mother went ahead of us seemingly

by the car. Something in his eyes seemed so… broken. I knew that he wasn’t

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