Page 42 of Pack: Posy 3

"Yeah, I have," Emerson volunteered. "A couple of months before I found Five Fangs, I met with the alpha to see if it might work out for me to join the pack. Why?"

"Did you meet his luna?" Mase asked.

"Craziest woman I haveeverhad the misfortune to meet," Emerson grouched, then turned to Angelo. "Babe, I'm telling you now, if I lose my mind, put me down. Do not let me hurt people and linger for years in madness and misery."

"Orsacchiotto(teddy bear), you forget I have healing in these hands." Angelo smirked and wiggled his fingers at him. "I'll keep your mind straight."

"The only straight thing about you, Em," Wyatt snickered, unable to help himself. "It's good that you have Gelo's magic hands to keep you from losing your nuts."

"Wyatt!" Jay hissed. "There's a lady present! And the expression is losing your marbles, not your nuts."

"Eh, marbles, nuts, same thing. And if he's going to pitch me balls, I have to swing at them."

"Stop thinking withyourballs for five minutes!"

"Why are you thinking about my balls?"

"I didn't say I was! I saidyouwere."

"But you had to be thinking about them to thinkIwas thinking with them. I mean, I know they're tremendous, interesting, and amazing, but, dude, you're mybrother. It's wrong for you to obsess over them like this."

"Wyatt, I am going to cut your balls off and shove them down your throat if you don't shut the hell up!" Jay gritted through his teeth.

Papa's head swiveled from Wyatt to Jay and back like he was watching a tennis match, an impassive look on his face, but his eyes glinted with laughter. Em's face turned beet red, Dad choked on a laugh, and Angelo hid a grin behind his hand. Thoreau looked clueless, Maria and Ash were giggling messes, and Mase looked done.

I mean, he lookedDONE.

Being around Papa always put his hackles up and made his icy front downright arctic. Add in this morning's surprise fight and now Wyatt's antics when he was trying to have a serious conversation, and he was about to erupt.

With a sigh, I reached around Maria and slapped Wyatt upside the head.

The little cunt had the audacity to scowl at me.

Bro, I just saved your life, I linked him with an eye roll.You should say thanks.

Jay wouldn't cut—

Not Jay. Mase,I hissed.Be quiet for a bit, Wy. He's on edge.

Wyatt's eyes cut over at our eldest brother, who'd turned to face Emerson and resume his questions while ignoring the rest of us.

"What did the luna do that made you think she was crazy?"

"For one," Emerson began, "she carried around a doll and called it her pup. For another, the way she dressed and her make up, I can't even describe it. Like a little girl who had gotten into her mother's closet or something. And then, the thing that made me light out of there—"

He swallowed hard and glanced at Angelo before looking back at Mase.

"She, uh, she assaulted me."

"You know I need more details, Em."

"She tried to—" His face paled and two bright spots of red bloomed on his cheeks.

"Oh,orsacchiotto(teddy bear)," Angelo crooned and pulled him into a hug, tucking his mate's face into his neck. "I'm here. You're safe."

"She tried to touch me," Emerson muttered against Angelo's throat. "You know what I mean. She said I had to prove I was gay. I wanted to break her neck, but the alpha was there with his beta and gamma. I was a big, strong kid, but I wouldn't have stood a chance against all three of them."

"What did the alpha do during all this?Watch?" I asked, feeling as disgusted as Emerson must have.

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