In the Alpha’s Arms

Well Here Goes Nothing

The bottle was heavy as she took it from Cale. So was het heart. It was I like she thought they d avoid the conversation forever but the hoped by the time he brought it up, shed have some sort of closure. Lila drank quietly for a few minutes and Cule didu 1 pasti her. She let out a shaky becadh, Wh do you want to know?”

I already know who is he and what pack he belongs to. I already know where he loves. I kns about his job, the one he inherited from his father, and his friends. I know he wants to be elected as his packs alpha after the cument ane retires. I know he’s been looking for a way into the mute prestigiou circles of their pack to look for backing and funding for his campaign. I kiss your parents support his campaign, and as the beta comple of their opinion holids sway,”

I know where he takes his dry cleaning. I know about the women he takes home and about how they look when they leave. I know about the series of properties he twats on both coasts and about the hefty medical bills he’s been accruing. All women. All accidents,” Cole looked over in find Lita’s mouth. hanging open. She hadn’t realized how much digging he’d already done. She didnt even know most of that information

What was he planning to do with all that knowledge, she wondered? Some part of her already knew. She knew what she would do with the information. She would make him suffer like she had suffered. But it hadn’t been all bad had it? Maybe the last few months hut before that… it was like trying to remember where deja vu came from. A slippery memory more feeling that anything. She had felt happy with him once. She just couldn’t remember why.

But what I want to know… what all the surveillance files Andres compiled won’t tell me… is what he did to you, Lita,” his voice had dropped into a near whisper as if he were apologizing before she’d even begun. As if he really didn’t want to make her remember but he couldn’t help it. She could see the hand lines of his forehead. Lita already knew what he was remembering. Her apartment. The blood. Her battered body. She shivered as he stroked a thumb along her cheek, “I want to be there for you. You’ve never talked about it. I let you act like it never happened but… you have to come to terms with it sooner or later. Especially–”

“Especially what?” her pulse jumped.

“Especially if it wasn’t the only time, Lita,” his throat bobbed, the anger palpable in the air, “I need to know everything, or at least, as much as you’ll tell me because–

“BECAUSE WHAT?” Lita was getting agitated. It was had enough he was making her think of things she’d rather not consider but then to be vague about his intentions? It was grating on her nerves. She took another gulp of alcohol to soothe her nerves.

Caliu down Nyx nudged her, you’re making our blood pressure rise.

50? I’m angry… so what?

high blood

you get the less–control you love over the shift. You’re still fear. We both are. I don’t want to forer shift. it hurt you pretty bandly lost time

Maybe you should clay down your killed Erica

they were on the same page. Lita might have been just as willing on this front. Her anger had hidden under fear for a long time but it was there, ready and

his lips, “Did

to him, “No sorry… Nyx was telling

down. Maybe it’s too soon to talk about this.” He was angry with himself. He should have known it was too soon. She

fervently, “What’s the reason for bringing this all up now?

growled, furious for letting that because slip. “There’s a showcase in New York in a few weeks… I was it’s a good opportunity for the gym and pack is going… but if you

intended. Instead it was hardened,

closure you

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would you need closure about

spoke again, his voice was lower, though still gruff and angry, “He hurt you. My mate. And I love you. I can’t- it’s not

I saw, I can’t unsee it Lita. I can’t unfeel that anger, that rage. He hurt you. Do you understand what I’m saying? Someone I love…you. I would kill anyone who intentionally hurt you. Anyone. My father. Hell even Ace

she wasn’t afraid of that anger. She was drawn to it. In a strange way, it felt like a declaration of love. An admission that she was more important than anything else. He’d avenge her at all costs. Protect her at all costs. Love her

make you cry baby,” he whispered pulling her

not- it’s not like that,” she sniffled, “it’s- I- I’ll tell you whatever you want to know because you deserve to know and because I trust

him to decide, “it’s my decision Cole. He hurt me. I should be