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

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 hand was broken so we

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 abruptly and dad was in a good mood, so I didn’t think he would do something like that.” Axton stares at

kept stabbing her. My grandfather shifted and Eli ran for help. My grandfather tried to protect her. She was still alive, bleeding everywhere, but her wolf was a quick healer. She had to be living with my father

dad almost killed my grandfather when he shifted. That’s when I got Khan. His voice suddenly appeared 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

you killed him?” Axton shakes his

tried, but my father’s wolf was a monster, and Khan was brought

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no match for him. If it wasn’t for Eli, I would

“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

when did you

hands were tied. Pack business is handled within the pack. Still is. Dad tried

you challenged him?” Axton shakes

something I am

“Why?”

or given to the oldest child

title would have been yours un- less you killed him in cold blood?” Axton says

is why there is so much media speculation about how

told the council he wit- nessed the challenge

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would he

my food at his words. I shake my head, knowing Sondra

had any

Floyd had a daughter. That I

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