The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 206

Alexander

Gabriel stormed into my office the next morning without so much as a knock. The moment the door was shut behind him, he whirled on me, his face twisted with fury.

“Are you out of your fucking mind?” he snarled.

I slowly looked up from the budget reports I’d been reviewing. “Good morning to you too, Gabriel. What’s got your panties in a twist today?”

“You told her everything.” Gabriel’s face was crimson with rage. “You told Ella about the investigation. About her father. About all of it.”

“Yes, I did.”

“Do you have any idea what you’ve done? Years of work, Alexander. Years of careful planning and surveillance, and you just handed it all over to the enemy.”

I carefully set down my pen and leaned back in my chair. “She’s not the enemy.”

“How can you possibly know that?”

“Because she’s my mate. My wife. The mother of my child.” I stood up and gripped the edge of the desk so hard my knuckles turned white. “And because I chose to trust her.”

“Trust her? Based on what? Sex?”

My wolf bristled at his indignation, but I fought to maintain control. For now, at least. “Based on the fact that she offered to help me take down her own father the moment she found out.”

“Which could be part of the plan! Don’t you see that?” Gabriel stormed up to me and jabbed his finger into the center of my chest, making my wolf growl. “This could all be an elaborate setup. She gets caught with the evidence, plays the innocent victim, gains your sympathy, and now she’s perfectly positioned to feed

information back to Stormhollow.”

Gabriel wasn’t entirely wrong, but I recalled last night all too well. Ella’s face when she’d found the evidence, followed by the look of pain in her eyes when I explained everything… Unless she was a

phenomenal actress, I couldn’t imagine that she was lying.

“You didn’t see her, Gabriel. You didn’t hear what she said.”

“I don’t need to. I know how these people operate.” Gabriel pinched the bridge of his nose and shut his eyes in exasperation. “Alexander, you’re letting your feelings cloud your judgment. Again.”

“My judgment is just fine.”

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played like a fiddle. That Stormhollow

instinct in me fighting against the hold of composure I had on myself. I wanted to leap across the desk and sink my teeth into the Beta’s neck. Wanted to

fury. “No, it’s not enough. We need to continue

“The investigation is over.”

“Like hell it is.”

we need to move against her father. Ella is not a

“You don’t know that!”

“She’s pregnant with my heir, for fuck’s sake. You think

do whatever it

it. I’d had

out of

“I’m doing my job!”

to make decisions for me. Your job is to support my

is to protect this pack from threats, even

them.”

I stepped around my desk, getting in his face. “I’m

comes to her?

suppose you

managed to wrap the Alpha King around her little finger in a matter of months. I see a

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before I could control myself. Gabriel stumbled backward, slamming into the coffee cart behind him. Cups and saucers went shattering across the floor, and blood immediately began to trickle

about my mate

wiped the blood from his face and glared at me.

insubordinate asshole makes you useless

making the biggest mistake of your

By whispering in my ear like I’m some kind of idiot who can’t think for

you’re acting like

a fool. And perhaps I was, but a Beta had no right to speak to me–or his Luna–like that. No matter what he thought about the situation, I was still his

tolerate it

it that night in the alley all those months ago when I beat

again,” I

being naive. Stupid. She’s playing

“Get out.”

“Alexander-”

said get out.

white. “You can’t be

my authority one too many times. A Beta who

“You’re making a mistake.”