Page 39 of Kitty Cat

“Dude, how dumb are we? They act like siblings. They even smell similar, fuck it.”

Ace shrugged while they picked their jaws up.

“The kids are hiding somewhere. Any idea where?”

Christine was shaken, but she pointed towards the game room tucked under the staircase.

Rye didn’t see anything when he got in, but he knew they were there. Seconds later, they appeared right in front of their eyes.

He smiled at Niamh, and took Lola off her hands.

“Good job, little witch. Well done protecting your sisters.”

The poor girl looked like she might faint, but she’d done as well as any adult Enforcer might have in her place. Some day - soon - he could imagine her joining the pride authority.

“Here come my best girls,” Daunte chirped when they walked in the lounge, a tray of hot chocolate and cookies in his arms.

The Beta distributed the goodies to all the kids first, then Clarissa, before offering the rest to the Enforcers.

Once the shock had passed, the fighters assembled, and Rye asked Ace, “Is everything ready?”

His mate nodded.

They knew it was coming any minute now. These wolves had just been scouts, and they’d indubitably contacted their packs.

By morning, they would have war.

Family

They tookthe kids with them, and waited in a clearing by the lake. Anyone passing by might have thought it was just a group of young people having a nice picnic by the water with their children. They weren’t wrong, really. Ian had made some sandwiches, Clarissa had baked some stuff and tagged along, because Daunte had - privately, when she was out of hearing range - insisted that she was too close to them to be left behind. All in all, they were actually having a lot of fun.

Ace knew her brother; he liked the girl - a lot. Watching that unfold was going to be a lot of fun. Daunte wasn’t normally serious with women, so, he was going to mess up. Epically.

Now that Ace had shifted, she felt more comfortable doing so again. No one had said a bad word about her being what she was: an animal. No one seemed disgusted either. She hadn’t realized just how frightened she was of never being accepted because of her nature, until they’d made it a non-issue.

Although now, Daunte called her sis ever other second, making up for all the times when she hadn’t let him.

To get even, Ace secretly smirked, glancing at her brother before asking Clary, “How was your date yesterday, by the way?”

If she wasn’t mistaken, there was a low growl coming from her left. Hilarious.

“Ugh, the worst. The guy wouldn’t stop talking about how important his work is. He’s a damnbank clerk,for Christ’s sake!”

She was laughing when suddenly, the atmosphere around them changed. Aisling got up, alongside the rest of her pride.

Holy shitty fuckity hell.

They approached as one, appearing at the other end of the clearing all of a sudden; they obviously had a witch cloaking them. A good one.

She knew that there were hundreds of Vergas wolves, but she hadn’t expected them all to come, leaving their territory undefended. But they had, which was telling her how serious they were about their insane cause.

Ace immediately spotted the Alpha. A middle-age, handsome man with salt and pepper hair, walking like the world belonged to him. He was completely naked, and hard, too- he liked this. The idea of destroying a small pride with children excited him.

She recognized the woman standing at his left. Ace didn’t feel one way or another about it, but from the unanimous growl coming from her pridemates, she was the only one who didn’t take offense.

Kim- Jas’ twin. She’d betrayed them. That explained how the scouts had made it past their security. They hadn’t changed the security codes, and they’d even got Rain to allow her to pass through her wards like the rest of the pride, using some hair they’d found on her pillow to make sure she could come back if she so wanted. With her blessing, the wards wouldn’t have had any effect on the wolves.

“I can’t believe it.”

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