Katie


    What the hell was that all about?


    The whole time Braden was speaking, Lily was going crazy, scratching and pawing inside me.


    | couldn''t tell if she wanted to hump him or bite his head off.


    | couldn''t, either, if 1 was being honest.


    Thest thing | needed was to add another man into the rotation, but Braden was handsome as hell, and


    he knew his way around some flirty banter.


    | shook myself out of it. This was just a distraction from thinking about Mason and how much I''d f ucked


    up with him.


    But if Braden could tell me things about my past, then maybe some light flirting to get the information needed wouldn''t be so bad.


    | stripped out of Braden’s clothes, needing to shake off the vampire smell before | got back to the


    mansion. Then | shifted and ran.


    When | got back, | collected the clothes I’d strewn all over thewn and got dressed again, bracing myself


    for whatever chaos was unfolding inside the mansion.


    | stepped inside as quietly as | could, nning to make a beeline straight for my quarters, but as soon as


    the door shut behind me, | felt a hand grip my arm and tug me backward into another wing of the house.


    | tried to pull away, but whoever had me in their grip was way too strong.


    Adoor mmed shut and suddenly, | was in a living room | didn’t recognize.


    “What are we going to do about you?” a deep, wicked voice asked.


    | finally looked up into the eyes of the person who''d brought me here. He was older, his face lined and his hair streaked with


    silver, but | didn’t recognize him.


    “Do you know who | am?” he asked, his eyes boring into me.


    Lily stirred inside me, running a defensive circle around my belly. Her guard was up. This man made her


    nervous.


    I shook my head.


    “I''m Orion Constantine,” he said, and his lips curled up in a half-smirk half-snarl. “I’m Xander’s father and the former Alpha.”


    “N-nice to meet you,” | said softly. “Are you going to let me go?”


    | nced at his hand still wrapped around my arm.


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    “Xander! Help!”


    Zane’s eyes shed to mine.


    “She’s in trouble,” he said.


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    | burst into his quarters, Zane trailing just behind me.


    | went blind with rage when | saw it.


    My father’s arm was wrapped tightly around Katie, and tears were streaming down her face.