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

perwork over to her. Mom signed it and gave it back to him. My grandfather was talking to me.

her to see my dad had stabbed her in the throat with a steak knife. I was in shock and just stared at her. It happened so quickly and

still alive, bleeding everywhere, but her

how; I tried. My fa- ther’s wolf ripped her to pieces in front of me. He broke both my

you killed him?”

was a monster, and Khan was

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for him. If it wasn’t for Eli, I would be

“What did Eli do?’

shot him. It didn’t kill him, but distracted him long enough for my grandfather to shift once my father turned on Eli. My grandfather knocked him out. Forced

did you kill

But Marco’s hands were tied.

challenged him?”

is not something I am willing

“Why?”

challenged for, or given

understand. The title would have been yours un- less you

didn’t you? That is why there is so much media speculation about how you

He told the council he wit- nessed the challenge in the

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he

Marco’s niece.” I nearly choke on my food at his words. I shake my head, knowing Sondra had

had any

but Floyd had a daughter. That I

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