Aicha On The Hunt Chapter 10

I cut off another piece of steak, chewing slowly, wonder- ing if he will answer about Khan saving him.

“Is it really bothering you that much?” Axton asks, and I look at him.

“About how I killed my father?”

“I never asked that?”

“Yet I can feel your curiosity over it,” he says, grabbing his plate.

“You said you were seventeen. But we don’t get our wolves until 18.”

“Once my grandfather was back, my mother agreed to sign everything over to him. We were eating dinner, Eli was staying the night and I remember dad was in a great mood ebcause he was drunk. I just assumed it was because we bought this place and were moving soon.” Axton pauses, star- ing down at his plate, his hand fisting around the knife.

“This packhouse?” I ask him. Axton nods.

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“Yeah, mom was excited; she said this place would be a fresh start. Mom purchased it two weeks before we were moving the pack here.”

“And that’s why you lived in the apartment, not here, be- cause it was your mother’s?” Axton nods sadly.

“So what happened?” I ask curious.

“Dad was living away. He was living here for a bit to sort out things here. Mom and dad were constantly fighting, so it was a good break for her. Anyway, he came home. He handed

fin- ished eating dinner. When we finished eating, he slid the pa- perwork over to her. Mom signed it and gave it back to him. My grandfather was talking to me. I had another fight in the pits, and my

steak knife. I was in shock and just stared at her. It happened so quickly

She was still alive, bleeding everywhere, but her wolf was a

in my head and screamed at me to drop the barrier between us. I didn’t know how; I tried. My fa- ther’s wolf ripped her to pieces in front of me. He broke both my legs and my arm when I tried to stop him. I was bleeding out, my grandfather was

killed him?”

was a monster, and Khan was brought on by my fear.

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no match for him. If it

“What did Eli do?’

father’s gun and shot him. It didn’t kill him, but distracted him long enough for my grandfather to shift once my father

did you

mother’s death. People were asking questions. So, I contacted Marco. But Marco’s hands were tied. Pack business is handled within the pack. Still is. Dad tried to get my grandfather to take

challenged him?”

not something

“Why?”

challenged for, or given to the

don’t understand. The title would have been yours un- less you killed him in cold blood?”

is why there is so much media speculation

helped cover it up. He told the council he wit- nessed the challenge in

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would he

I nearly choke on my food at his words. I

had

had a daughter. That

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