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Lachlan shrugged again "Having na teeth possible, this be the next best option You canna stop it,of it"

The other pack ht punch to Lord Maccon’s chin, sending hiair stepped hastily to one side to avoid a silver platter as it skidded off the table toward her

"Oh oodness!" came Ivy’s voice fro!"

Tunstell i a lady should witness, Miss Hisselpenny," he exclai her out of the room

"But…" came Ivy’s voice

Lady Maccon smiled proudly at the fact that the redhead hadn’t considered her sensibilities Mada ide, interested eyes, gave Alexia a look and left the roo Felicity in her wake

Lord Maccon sla the olf backward into the wall The whole rooair will have to rereeair

There was blood everywhere, as well as spilled brandy, broken glass, and crushed oodness’ sake," said Lady Maccon, exasperated, "don’t they realize that as humans, they could seriously injure one another if they carry on like this? They do not have the supernatural strength to take those kinds of blows, nor the supernatural healing to recover from them"

Both men rolled to the side and fell off the tabletop with a loud thud

Good Lord, thought Lady Maccon, noting that a good deal of the blood see froht a spare cravat

She was not particularly worried, for she had little doubt in her husband’s pugilistic skills He boxed regularly at Whites, and he was her chosen ht, but still, the disarray being generated was unacceptable Things could not be allowed to continueto clean up such a ht, Lady Maccon whirled about and went purposefully to fetch her parasol

She need not have bothered By the ti darts loaded and parasol ready to fire, both men were slu his head and coughing in sharp painful little gasps, and Lord Maccon was listing to one side, blood dribbling out of his nose and one eye nearly swollen shut

"Well don’t you two look a picture," Alexia said, resting her parasol against the wall and crouching down to exa a spot of vinegar won’t put to rights" She turned to one of the clavigers "Run and get ood man" Lord Maccon looked at her over the top of his cravat, which he was now holding to his nose Ah well, the cravat was ruined already

"Didna ken you cared, wife," he gruentle ministrations nevertheless

So as not to see off thehis jacket

At the saair Beta and said, "Settle the issue to your ave her a deadpan expression that still ust in her very existence, let alone her question Alexia only shook her head at such petulance

The Kingair claviger returned bearing a flask of cider vinegar Lady Maccon ian to copiously douse her husband about the face and neck with it

"Ouch! Steady on, that stings!"

Dubh led to his feet He would have to, Alexia surmised, to et away fros," she said "Not nice to have to heal the old-fashioned way, now, is it, my brave table warrior? Perhaps you will pause to consider next ti in a confined space I mean really, look at this roohly asha has been settled," Dubh said, returning hastily to his sluotten the worse end of things One of his arash in his left cheek

However, Lady Maccon’s brisk application of vinegar seemed to have shattered everyone else’s collective inertia, for they began bustling around the fallen Beta, splinting up his ar to his wounds

"You still abandoned us" Dubh sounded like a petulant child

"You all know exactly why I left," Lord Maccon growled

"Uh," said Alexia tinored her

"You couldna control the pack," Dubh accused

Everyone present in the rooravity of the insult and was occupied trying to pick the last of the ue off her husband’s dinner jacket

"That isna fair," said Lachlan, not iance, the Gamma simply stayed away from both Conall and Dubh

"You betrayed me" Lord Maccon did not yell, but the words carried and, even though he could not change to wolf forer in them

"And you pay us back in kind? The eht fair about pack protocol You and I both know that; there is simply protocol And there was none to cover what you did It was entirely unprecedented So I was cursed with the dubious pleasure of having to make it up myself Abandonment seemed to be the best solution, since I didna want to spend another night in your presence"

Alexia looked over at Lachlan The Gamma had tears in his eyes

"Besides"--Lord Maccon’s voice softened--"Niall was a perfectly good Alpha alternative He led you well, I hear He h for decades under his doair finally spoke Her voice was oddly soft "Niall was my mate, and I pure loved hiood soldier, but he wasna a true Alpha"

"Are you saying he wasna doht of lack of discipline Whenever I ran a recognizance on Kingair, you all seemed to be perfectly content" Conall’s voice was soft

"So you did check up on us, did you, old wolf?" Lady Kingair looked hurt at that rather than relieved

"Of course I did You were once my pack"