Page 15 of My Bad Boy Alpha

ZURI

“Please, Stone,”I pleaded, dragging my feet like an immature brat.

It had been twenty-four hours since he had taken me, and I was stillattemptingto familiarize myself with his crazy ass.I didn’t need an entire pack of people just like him right now.Honestly, I didn’t know if I could handle that, especially after those ashes.

“You’re meeting the pack,” Stone said without argument.

“But—”

I snapped my mouth closed when he swung the front door open and tried not to sound like a bitch because I at least wanted the pack to like me.Stone marched us all the way down to a small river, where James stood with his mate, washing blood off her shoulder in the water.

“What happened?”Stone asked, canines lengthening.“Did Dirt attack?”

“Dirt?”I asked.

Damn, they really went all natural for the names around here, huh?Next, Stone would try to convince me to name our future pup Cloud or Sun.Nothing wrong with those names, but I didn’t want my child to get bullied.

My cheeks flushed.Why the hell was I thinking about a pup right now?!

James glanced over his shoulder at us.“We call Stone’s brother Dirt because he’s …”

“A piece of shit,” Stone finished, clenching his jaw.“Now, what happened?”

“Just some roughhousing,” James said, earning him a slap from his mate.

“James,” she scolded, glaring at him for a moment.“Not in front of our new luna.”

“What?”James argued.“It’s not like?—”

James’s mate nudged him hard in the ribs, then smiled at me.“Sorry about him.You must be Luna Zuri.”She stepped forward, bowed her head, then extended her arm for me to shake.“I’m Beta James’s mate, Sapphire.”

“It’s nice to meet you,” I said in a whisper.

Sapphire giggled.“You can call me Saph.Everyone around here does.”

“Speaking of everyone,” Stone interrupted because that man didn’t have self-control and wanted me to meet every single member of his pack right this very instant.“Where’s the pack?Training finished less than an hour ago.Most stay around until noon.”

“I thought that our luna would need some … time to adjust after your gift this morning,” James said.

I placed my hands on my hips, arched a brow, and turned toward Stone.“See.”

“See what?”

“He knew I needed time,” I scolded in the happiest tone so Saph wouldn’t judge me.

“Are you saying that my beta knows my mate better than I do?”he growled, his long canines glistening with saliva in the sunlight.He stepped toward me and grasped my chin, forcing me to crane my head up at him.“Hmm?”

My gaze dropped to his canines yet again, and I pressed my thighs together.Fuck.

Curse the Moon Goddess for these damn feelings.For making me ache for him.

“Answer m?—”

“No,” I said, pushing him off me and turning away.

I felt Stone’s intense gaze on me for another moment, and then he looked toward the couple giggling in front of us.

“Gather everyone for dinner tonight then.Zuri will have had time to adjust.Right, Zuri?”

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