Page 62 of Claimed By My Fiancé's Brother

His voice broke, and maybe if Dylan hadn’t hurt me so much, I might have felt pity for him.

But I didn’t.

I shoved him away.

“Don’t come back here,” I spat out. “If you intercept another message from Alexander, I’ll never forgive you.”

Turning on my heels, I stalked inside the house.

After exchanging greetings with Lily, I headed straight to my room.

When I took off my jacket, a few pieces of paper fluttered to the ground.

Fragments of the envelope and Alexander’s letter.

I reached for the pieces before I was fully aware of what I was doing. Out of the four pieces of paper, only one was big enough to have more than a few letters written on it.

It held two words in the loopiest handwriting I’d ever seen.

Little rabbit, it read.

I clutched that piece of paper for longer than I should have before a laugh finally escaped me.

Classic Alexander.

Of course, he’d include a taunt in his letter to me.

Messages from the battlefield claimed that Alexander was fine, but I didn’t realize how much I hadn’t believed it until I read those words.

He was fine. Goddess, he was fine.

I felt my eyes burn. Confused, I touched my cheek, surprised by the moisture on my fingers.

Was I crying?

No.

I must’ve gotten something irritating into my eyes.

Yes, that was it, because there was no way I was so concerned about Alexander’s well-being that I was crying over two words in his handwriting.

Tossing the paper away and pushing Alexander from my mind, I headed for my shower.

Minutes after I exited the bathroom, a note was delivered to my door.

It was a short note from Dylan. I could recognize his handwriting, but even if I couldn’t, the contents of the note made it obvious who it was from.

I’ll give you the rest of his letters, but we need to talk,it read.

Beneath that was the time and location for our proposed meeting.

It was the brook by the northeastern border of the Nightshade Pack.

It was also an area Dylan frequently patrolled.

Due to the current situation in the pack, we had fewer wolves to guard the borders compared to normal, and while the alpha of the pack couldn’t just ride off to battle and stay there, especially with a child on the way, he could supplement the night patrols and do check-ins.

I considered the note.

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