Page 39 of Tamed Wolf

“You’re not allowed in here,” one of them spits at us.

“I’m sorry, who are you?”

“We’re the owners of this club. And we say you aren’t allowed in here.”

“We’re just here for our girl, then we’ll leave,” Brooks says.

That pisses them off.

“She’s not fuckingyours.”

Oh. It’sthem.

I feel a rictus grin split my face wide, and don’t bother hiding it. “She’s here, isn’t she? Guessed right. I love when that happens.”

They crowd into us more, our commotion starting to gather attention. Camden appears out of who knows where and tries to usher us to somewhere quieter, but when we get to a smaller version of the room we were in last week, Camden is lined up right next to his dads, arms crossed, tension visible in every bit of exposed skin. “I ought to kick your fucking asses,” he says as he eyes me and my brother up. “Real fuckin’ dumb of you to come back here after the damage you caused.”

“What the hell are you talking about?” Brooks asks for the both of us.

“Cam, could you go watch the floor while we talk to them?” the one that sems slightly more rational says.

“No, let him stay. I want this all out in the open, and it’d be a hell of a lot easier if he were here as witness.” I pull the papers out of my back pocket I brought just in case and hand them over. “You’ve identified yourselves as the owners of this club, which is good enough for us. You’re being served. Report yourselves to the Alpha House within 72 hours to prevent further complications.”

“For…for what?” Camden screeches. “You’re the sick fucks that brought my mom back with broken fucking ribs! Why don’t you turn your own asses in instead, huh?”

Every muscle in my body locks up and I narrow my eyes at the men that I’m now looking at as though they’re roaches, and I can feel my wolf rising swiftly inside of me.

I shift before I have time to think about what I’m doing, and I start backing the two ex-mates ofmygirl into a corner, growling and exerting my alpha dominance to keep them from shifting.

“What are you talking about, Camden? We brought her back to the shelter in perfect health. We spent the day at the Alpha House and then took her for dinner before bringing her home safely. If she was injured in any way at all, it’s not on us, and that means these two men that seem to think they still have a claim on your mother decided the hell they’ve put her through already just wasn’t enough.”

I can feel Brooks shaking next to me, trying to stay in his human form, fighting the tide of anger I’ve fully given into. I don’t take my eyes off of the two exes though.

“Which one of you took that precious woman and fucking broke her? Huh?” A chill runs down my spine from Brooks’ tone, and my fangs are just dying to rip into something.

“This is clearly a misunderstanding,” Camden says, putting himself between us and them. “Mom said…” he thinks about this but doesn’t seem to find a conclusive answer. “We should just get her.”

“Take me to her. He’s going to stay and keep an eye on these two,” Brooks commands while he follows Camden out of the room.

I refuse to let them leave me behind though when I could be there with him, finding Lark.

Keeping my back away from them, I herd them to follow. We end up in a hallway that’s clearly not meant for patrons but still smells like sex, and Camden knocks briefly before pulling his keys off his belt on an elastic and lets us in.

The sight that arrests us makes the decision for me. I lunge for the nearest asshole to me, getting a good chunk of his upper leg, and shake my neck until he’s bleeding and rolling around on the floor. I’m feral as I go after the other guy, but like an asshole he runs to jump behind the cage where Lark is currently being kept, in what I’m assuming is the kennel that Beckett found her in.

“Calm down!” Camden yells. “Nothing is happening if you can’t keep control of yourselves!”

“Are you fucking blind?” Brooks yells. “You’re keeping your mother in a fucking dog kennel again, and have the audacity to tell us to calm down?”

Camden plays with his keys, and I relish in the blood dripping off my teeth, staining their white floor.

“It’s just so we can keep control of her. She…she’s been a little wild lately. I didn’t want her to hurt herself.”

Lark is lying there more or less comatose, staring up at the ceiling without any sort of reaction to any of our presences.

“What the hell did you guys do to her?”

I shift back so I can be more helpful, using my alpha dominance to demand Camden’s sweats so my ass isn’t casually hanging out. Then I grab Brooks’ phone as he snatches the keys off of Camden and dives for the cage, hands shaking as he digs through the ring for the one that will let us into the padlock.

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