Page 34 of Wolf's Endgame

Nikan took the box Willy was carrying from her, his comment too low for me to hear, but I saw Koda’s flushed reaction. However, it was her knowing smug smirk at my brother’s back that caused me to move forward.

Come for me, I’ll fight you if that’s what you want. Come for my loved ones, I’ll kill you, no questions asked.

The pack stilled around me as I approached her. No one spoke when my hand wrapped around her throat and I practically lifted her off the stool.

“Who did you tell?” Koda made a show of looking innocent and outraged at once, but my temper was barely hanging on.

Koda.

She stopped clutching at her neck. Her eyes filled with hate as she met my glare.

My lover.

“Seems like you’ve been collecting them,” I mocked as I dropped her. “Don’t even pretend you slept with Doc. So…Landon would be my guess? Who else have you been trading pillow talk with?”

“Are you jealous, Alpha?” The sultry look she gave me made me laugh.

“No. I don’t care who you fuck, Koda, I never did.” I saw the effect my words had on her, and I didn’t care. “How long has Landon known how to break the mate bond?” I ignored the whispers around me. “I won’t ask again, Koda.”

“A few weeks.”

“I’ve been in an infirmary bed for more than a few weeks…try again. This time, tell the truth.”

“A month, maybe more.” She didn’t look at me.

“You told Landon over a month ago how to break the mate bond?” When she nodded, I glanced at Nikan, who was rigid with fury, but he nodded once. “Why did Landon want to know?”

“Her.”

Figures. “And?”

Koda tossed her hair. “His sister.” Gaining confidence because I wasn’t acting on what she was telling me, made her cocky. She shrugged carelessly. “Why he would need to know for her, I don’t know.”

“Because, you stupid bitch, she’s mated to an alpha,” Nikan snapped.

Koda looked at me in confusion. “No! Landon said Kezia was your mate!”

I was in her face, my snarl quieting the cacophony of sudden voices. “She is my mate. Landon’s sister, Cass, is mated to Kezia’s brother, Kris.” Koda searched my face as I loomed over her. “Did he tell you he was an alpha? Is that it, Koda?” I saw the truth in her eyes, and I stepped back. “You thought Landon was an alpha and would want you?” I snorted. “You’re an idiot. Get her out of my pack.”

“Where will I go?” Koda wailed.

“I don’t give a fuck. As long as it’s nowhere near me, my mate, or my pack, I don’t care.”

Royce stepped up beside me. I had seen him enter, but he’d kept his distance. “Willy?” He gestured to the older female and another male. “She leaves but not until we’re back. She’s betrayed us already. Let’s not allow her to do it again.”

As I left them, Willy was already putting binds around Koda’s wrists, as deaf as everyone else to the sound of Koda’s pleading.

“What did we miss?” Royce asked as the three of us left the food hall. I filled them in that Doc had alerted the Pack Council to the fact I had a mate and wanted to break the bond. A fact that could sign my death sentence for heresy against my Goddess. I told them he had told Koda, and she in turn had told Landon, whose father actually wanted to break the mate bond between his daughter and his enemy’s son.

“If Bale has the Council on his side…” Nikan shared a look with Royce. “Cannon…”

“I know,” I told him. “It’s going to take more charm than I have to dissuade them.”

“What do you want to do?” Royce asked hesitantly.

“Nothing’s changed.” I kept walking. “Kris is our priority. Everything else can come after.” I hesitated. “If we pick up the treacherous little fucker as we go, I’m okay with that.”

“Doc really told her?” Royce muttered. “He gets so blind sometimes.”

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