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“I can,” Jas spit. “From what she told me over the phone when I talked to her last, she was pretty pissed when Rygan refused to fuck her. I thought she was going to get over it…but she’s just not that mature.”

Now, Ace was growling too, and also baring her teeth. The plastic Barbie had wantedher mate?That was another matter altogether.

“You realize we’re going to kill her for this, right?” Daunte asked.

Jas laughed. “Get in line.”

The humongous pack stopped fifteen feet away, at their Alpha’s wave. The man then advanced, flanked by two younger men, both of whom looked like him.

Power stayed in the family, then.

They walked right to Ace and Rye, appraising their marks.

“A mated pair.”

The Alpha wolf seemed approving. Of course he would be: being dominant and mated made them strong, and that was the thing that mattered most to him. Ace wondered what he’d say if he saw her shifting.

“I’m Arthur. These are my Beta and Head Enforcer, as well as my sons, Jason and Hunter.”

Ace wanted to roll her eyes.Hard.Really? They were exchanging civilities? She had to give him that, though: the man did hide his psychopath tendencies pretty well.

One of his sons, however? Not so much. The idiot Arthur had called Hunter winked at her. Ace had to physically restrain Rye.

Arthur had the decency to scowl at his Head Enforcer.

“Look, there’s no need to fight here. All we want…”

“We know what you want,” Rye replied as conversationally. “It’s not going to happen. Lola is one of us.”

“Lola, is it?” the Alpha laughed. “You see, I actually understand you. She just looks like a little kid now, but in ten years, when she shifts… do you know what she’ll look like, then?”

Rye shrugged.

“An animal. Like the rest of us.”

“A monster,” Arthur amended. “Twice the size of any wolf, quicker, more agile than any feline, and at war with herself. She’ll go feral, like so many of her kind have before- and she’ll kill. She’ll kill your children, your neighbor, you.”

Ace and Rye exchanged a glance. They didn’t know much about hybrids, but the rumorsdidsay that they had a hard time adapting; harder than most shifters, which was saying a lot.

“We’ll worry about it when it comes to it.”

Arthur looked like he might pity them.

“It’ll never come to it. You don’t want to condemn your whole pride just for one kid that’s not even yours. You’re outnumbered - ridiculously so.”

Ace smirked, and tilted her head.

“Are we?”

* * *

They’d expectedthat the wolves would spy first; giving them enough time to report what they’d found before killing them had always been part of the plan - although they would have preferred if they hadn’t stepped a foot inside their home.

The Vergas wolves had come assuming that they’d have the upper hand. Now, she watched their expression morph from casual amusement to gravity as Rain uncloaked herself, and the rest of their allies.

Ace’s friends had all made it, with friends of their friends, too. There were two hundred loners of various species, a couple of vampires, as well as Rye’s allies - another two hundred strong.

Now they’d been revealed, Byron Wayland walked forward, his older son Colter next to him. They stood on Rye’s left side, just as her father, The Butcher, and her stepmother went to stand at her left.

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