Page 71 of Wolf Cursed
Kai shook his head. “I don’t think she knows a damned thing about any of it. Her pop lied to her about everything. This shit isn’t our problem. We should be out there dealing with the spook.”
Silas looked reluctant to agree.
Presley was neutral as always, but Drake stood his ground.
“I think we need to rule it out one way or another before we can let her stay,” Drake said.
“She’s nobody,” Kai said, and I felt his words like a punch in the gut.
“Then let her prove it,” Drake said.
“How the hell do I prove I’m not a witch?” I demanded. “You going to toss me into a lake and see if I sink or float? Because—fake news.”
Isaac snickered.
Silas shot him a dirty look.
Isaac gave him the finger.
“You wish,” Silas muttered.
“Nah. I don’t want your mother’s leftovers,” Isaac said in an acidic voice.
Silas growled and took a step, but Idrissa slid between them.
“Easy, boy,” she whispered.
“She fights or she leaves,” Drake said, drawing everyone’s attention back. “Those are the rules, right?”
For a long moment, no one spoke.
Silas and Presley were the first to nod their agreement.
“Guy has a point,” Silas said, looking way too smug as he glanced over at Kai.
“Idrissa?” I asked quietly.
She gave me a pained look. “Those are the rules,” she said.
I looked at Isaac.
“I’ll shit on every one of their pillows tonight, I swear it,” he said solemnly. And then, after a pause, “But those are the rules.”
Silas grinned, and I wanted to claw the smile right off his violently handsome face.
“Kai?” Oscar said, and one by one, they all turned to him.
They might not have an official alpha, but Kai Stone was apparently as close as it got. And now, my fate rested in his hands.
He glared back at me, and I could practically hear the words being projected from his brain: you shouldn’t be here.
It was a tired refrain.
And for once, one I agreed with.
But there was no going back now.
“I’ll fight,” I said, condemning myself before Kai could do it for me.
