Page 92 of His Sunshine Baby

I hesitate for a second. Damn, I know I shouldn’t. I really shouldn’t get involved in anything Diego is involved in. I spentthe last three days avoiding him, brushing him off, and ignoring him, but it wasn’t easy. He almost fought with Levi yesterday just because I refused to answer when he talked to me at the pack’s reunion.

But…

“Daniel, if he injures them, I won’t forgive myself for it.”

Danny spurts out a profanity I really don’t hear often from his mouth and comes after us. The twins are about to come too, but their father orders them not to. We run outside, all three of us shape-shifting right away into our wolf forms.

Damn that guy! He hasn’t been back for a fucking week and he’s already messing with others!

Joe guides us all the way to another street, actually pretty close to where we were. When we arrive, there’s already a crowd around the fight. We have to growl to get through it, until I can see the scene.

A dark-gray and a brown wolf are fighting, all claws and fangs out. It’s a mess, there’s fur and blood flying. I immediately recognize Eric’s dark gray wolf, covered in blood. He is fighting angrily, growling, and standing his ground. The other wolf, however, barely has any injuries, but its maw is covered in blood.

When he is about to attack again, I instantly jump in and growl furiously. He stops his attack, stumbling to the side. My wolf warns him in an outraged growl.

“Don’t you fucking touch him!”

“Elena.”

He steps forward, but I growl even louder.

“Fuck off! Get away!”

He stays nearby, though, walking left and right as if there was a perimeter around me he couldn’t approach. Joe, in a dark brown blur of fur, suddenly gets in between us, growling at Diego too. But Joseph is a beta, and Diego isn’t afraid to growl back. I feel Daniel’s father trying hard to stand his ground, but Iknow how strong Diego is. I step in front of him and growl again, keeping Diego from approaching.

“Let me finish him. He asked for it!”

“Don’t you fucking touch Eric! You stay away!”

He tries to come toward us, and my wolf growls even louder as a warning.

“Don’t.”

“You can’t attack me anyway. Let me finish him!”

I keep growling, ignoring the mind-link to use my wolf’s full aura.

Diego takes another step, but suddenly, a big silver wolf jumps over my head and hits him full force, growling.

“What the hell is going on here?”

Clark’s furious voice resonates in our heads, and a lot of werewolves that were watching on the sides until now flee the scene quickly, unwilling to be exposed to the Alpha’s wrath. Only a few of us remain, and that’s when I finally notice Jace, his wolf knocked out on the side. I run to him, worried, while Joe stays by Eric’s side.

Clark’s growls are directed right at Diego, but he doesn’t stop growling despite facing the Alpha.

“Diego, are you fucking trying to piss me off? Attacking pack members!”

“They started it. You should discipline them better, Clark. Those bastards don’t even know how to show respect to an alpha.”

I growl even more furiously. He is obviously doing this to piss me off! Of course he’s doing it on purpose, this dirtbag! My wolf wants to attack him, make him pay for what he did! I keep growling, and Clark does too.

“Shut up! Don’t you dare start fights on my turf, with anyone! I don’t care who instigated it, Diego, everything wasfine until you came back and I’m not an idiot! This is a warning!”

Diego turns his head away, not submitting but not admitting to his wrongs either. I’m so mad at this bastard! Jace is unconscious, and Eric needs to go to the hospital! How could they be stupid enough to even agree to fight him?

Joseph pushes Eric with his head. With the light rain falling, the blood is slowly washing off from his injuries, but he obviously needs stitches. The beta keeps pushing him to move in the hospital’s direction. They both leave, and two other people from our pack run over to carry Jace.

Clark growls to chase away the few people left, and now it’s only Diego and us.

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