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Connor’s dark eyes narrowed and Ana just shook her head Everyone else at the table was silent as Liam and Connor stared at each other
Finally Connor spoke "We’re not going to go off half-cocked hunting this guy down I understand why you’re angry, but we have to be suy? Sure But ill it do for the pack? We need to find the leader and cut off the head of this organization If we kill this guy, someone else will replace him This isn’t just about you It’s about all of us"
Liam forced himself to take steady, even breaths His inner anted blood and he didn’t care what his Alpha said That knowledge terrified him Thankfully December hadn’t been hurt Not really Shaken up and scared, but not truly injured He’d never felt so out of control in his life Had never wanted to defy his Alpha--his blood--with the intensity he did now
Right noanted to tell his brother to go fuck himself and hunt down the bastard who’d tried to take Dece before A loyalty to his brother that ran bone deep was the only thing keeping hirounded
"What do you plan to do anyway, Lia?" Ana raised a dark eyebrow and gave hi scolded
Next to her, Erin snorted loudly "Your wo on a ranch with a pack of shifters and you’re gonna leave her? Yeah, real genius idea"
Ana nudged her and shook her head "It doesn’t matter the species, they’re all clueless," she ether so he wouldn’t say so a bath at the guesthouse He’d called ahead and asked Jayce to move his stuff into the males’ cabin, into Liam’s rooht now
She’d told him she wanted some tiot out He’d planned to ask Ana to stay with her while he went after the guy who hurt her, but noas reconsidering
Connor looked away fro"
Ryan cleared his throat and looked around the table "I still haven’t ood news The guy who tried toout of jail TuesdayIt’s because of the nature of the cri?" Liaainst the free
This time Connor spoke, his attention on Liam "He’s afraid of us--you specifically You want to do souy"
"Talk?" He’d broken the guy’s thuotten hihtly "Yes Talk We know his boss’s name is Edward Adler, but so far we can’t find out h of you to adave up Adler’s naht be able to use him if you can play on his fear of you"
Lia If he couldn’t hunt down theat his brother, he stood "Fine I need to check on Dece per, but he didn’t care at this point All he wanted was to see Dece her noould be worse in the long run She needed to know he’d be there for her, and if he was honest, he desperately wanted to co, Connor nodded and disht air as he crossed the ranch A few fe and he could scent sorounds, but all he could focus on was getting to December
She’d been unusually quiet the entire drive to the ranch and when he’d left her to take a bath, she’d barely said tords to hi and yelling at hiuarding the house and though he couldn’t see hi and would leave once he saw Liah he’d be able to scent anyone who entered the house He did it because he kneouldup the stairs, he followed that sweet, jasht spill out into the hallway He could hear heraround inside the rooe of the bed wearing so that barely fell to s Her damp, red hair spilled down her back and covered her face as she bent lower to rub the lotion onto her calves
His cock hardened in an instant as he watched her He must have made a sound, because her head jerked up