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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like a fiddle. That Stormhollow whore has

every Alpha 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 finally put him in his place for insulting my mate, once and for

need to continue the investigation. We need to dig deeper, find out what she’s

“The investigation is over.”

“Like hell it is.”

said it’s over, Gabriel. We have what we need to move against her father.

“You don’t know that!”

my heir, for fuck’s sake. You think she’d risk her own child’s life for some

whatever it takes to complete

it.

out of

“I’m doing my job!”

me, not to make decisions for me. Your job is to support my choices,

flashed. “My job is to protect this pack from

them.”

my desk, getting in his face. “I’m

comes to

I suppose you see everything

at exactly the right time with exactly the right story. I see a woman who’s managed to wrap the Alpha King around her little finger in a matter of months. I

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backward, slamming into the coffee cart behind him. Cups and saucers went shattering across the floor, and blood immediately began to trickle from his broken

you ever talk about my mate like that again,” I

face and glared at me. “Hitting me doesn’t make

an insubordinate asshole makes you useless to

to save you from making

ear like I’m some

acting like

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

would not tolerate it

alley all those

again,”

his chin. “You’re being naive. Stupid. She’s playing you, and you’re too infatuated to see

“Get out.”

“Alexander-”

out. You’re demoted,

face went white. “You

You’ve questioned my authority one too many times. A Beta who doesn’t respect his Alpha is no Beta at

“You’re making a mistake.”