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If I slow-clapped, Mahon’s head would probably explode

"You need to rethink that," Mahon told him

"You will not break the law you yourself helped put in place The law applies to everyone" Jilared at Mahon "You will obey it If you find yourself unable to follow the law, step down and Clan Heavy will find an alpha who can"

"You--" Mahon began

"I a," Mahon snarled

"Is that a challenge?" Jim bared his teeth Dali rose from her spot in the driveway and stalked over, paw over massive paw, like a silent majestic shadow, and stood beside herintensity

Mahon glanced at Curran

Curran shook his head

"You would side with the," Curran told him "The law is the lahether you like it or not Either you’re an alpha and you uphold the law, or you are not"

"It’s always like that with you," George said "You’ve been after Curran for years to find a mate, and when he found one, you didn’t approve of her, so you decided that none of the things you were supposed to do as his father applied You’ve been asking me for years when I planned to settle down, and when I did, you didn’t like him either Now he’s disappeared and it’s your responsibility as an alpha to look for him, but you don’t like it, so you chose not to do it All your talk of duty and obligationsYou think you know better than any of us You don’t Look at what you’re doing, Dad You’re challenging the Beast Lord you swore allegiance to because you don’t like the hter loves Because it hurt some weird little place in your pride This is how you serve and lead your clan Don’t you have any integrity at all?"

A burning rock the size of a basketball streaked across the sky and landed in the street in front of our house I lunged in front of Andrea, trying to shield her The explosion shook the ground

"What are you doing?" Andrea hauled nant"