Page 22 of My Bad Boy Alpha

Zuri arched a brow and shot me thatsee, I told youlook.

“You know how it is,” I said, sitting beside Zuri.

“You alphas,” she said, shaking her head.“Can’t control yourselves.Your grandpa was the same way.Always wanting to show me off.”She leaned closer to Zuri.“Believe it or not, I was a sexpot back in my day, just like you.”

Zuri’s cheeks flushed.“Oh, I’m not?—”

A growl escaped my lips, shutting my mate’s insecurities right up.

Grandma Bee looked at me.“Now, as for you, I’ve been meaning to talk with you.”

“What is it?”

She grabbed my hand.“You have a mate now.You should forget about all this nonsense, Stoney.Your mother’s death was a hard one, but we have all moved past it.You need to protect those close to you.”

“I’m not over it,” I growled.

“Over what?”Zuri asked.

“Nothing,” I said.

“He wants to …take care… of his father and brother.I’m sure he’s mentioned them to you,” Grandma Bee said.

“He’s mentioned Dirt,” Zuri said.

Grandma glanced over at me.“Dirt?”

My canines lengthened.“That’s what that piece of shit is.”

“Don’t get all angry now,” she hummed, clasping her beer tighter.“I miss your mom, too, but there is nothing we can do about it.Your father and brother are some of the strongest people in the world.”

“They used that strength to humiliate, rape, and murder my mother.”

Zuri tensed next to me, gripping my biceps a bit tighter.“T-that’s horrible.”

“What’s horrible is that nobody has said a fucking word about it,” I snarled.

After it had happened, they had continued to live out their lives like my father wouldn’t do the same to anyone else that he had done to his fated mate.

This pack that I led wasn’t my own.I wasn’t really supposed to be alpha.

But that was too complicated to explain to my dear Zuri, and I didn’t want her to fear for her life here.My pack and I were the only people who would actually protect her in this damn world.This pack and these people cared.

Unlike the people my father and brother led.

“Do you think—” Zuri started, a howl from deep in the woods cutting her off.

“Can’t be a pack meeting without me,” someone said from the forest.

I snapped up and growled.Fuck.

“Brother,” Derrit said, stepping out from the darkness, “I’m home.”

CHAPTERFIFTEEN

ZURI

“Derrit is your brother?”I whispered, stepping back and staring at the man I had seen many times before back at my old pack.

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