Page 72 of Shadow City: Silver Wolf

Griffin's anger was palpable as he said, "The water has turned off, so you can slow down. No one asked you to help, so don't come in here, demanding certain things. If my mate—"

"Yourmate?" Rosemary snorted. "Are you kidding me? This gets better and better."

"What's so funny about that?" Griffin rasped.

"You don't even want to be alpha, and now you're mated to a wolflikeher." She sighed. "Can you get any luckier?"

Inhaling sharply, I quickly dressed in the jeans and shirt I’d worn the day when Killian found me. I’d been avoiding wearing these clothes, but after destroying the new ones, I didn’t have much choice. I opened the door and strolled into the living room.

I straightened my shoulders and stared the angel down. "Thank you for fighting alongside us and helping, but you don't get to come in here and treat us like we’re worthless." She and Ihad a very odd relationship, to say the least. I didn't dislike her, but she was abrasive and rash.

"See, that's why I like you." Rosemary turned her back on Killian and Griffin. "You get straight to the point without trying to prove you have a dick."

A smile broke through my face. "It's kind of hard to prove I have one when the appendage is missing."

"It makes things easier that way." Rosemary laughed.

"Uh... what's happening?" Killian asked Griffin.

"No clue, man." Griffin shook his head as he walked over to me and took my hand. "But her being nice is kind of freaking me out."

"And they wonder why I don't want to bother talking to them." She shook her head. "But I'm assuming they're kind of a package deal?"

"Yeah, they are." I stepped closer to Griffin, needing to feel him. "So how did you know we were in trouble?"

"I didn’t." Rosemary strolled to the windows overlooking the pool and backyard. "I was actually on my way to find you about our little talk the other day."

My eyes flicked toward the tree line where several shifters were heading out back to take care of the dead. After we’d gotten back to the houses and shifted, more Shadow Ridge and Shadow City shifters had arrived. Luckily, I’d already gone inside, so none of them saw me in my silver wolf form. However, I needed to hurry and get out there to help them. After all, this carnage was all my fault. "Well, you found more than you bargained for."

"You do realize you need to tell Zac that he can't tell anyone about what she is." Rosemary scowled at Griffin. "The more people who realize she's a silver wolf, the more at risk she'll be."

"We've already handled that." Griffin stood tall beside me. "I commanded him with the alpha will. He can't tell anyone, not even his family."

Killian leaned against the wall on the other side of the window. "Not that he would've anyway."

"Don't be so certain." Rosemary rolled her shoulders. She looked at me. "But that's not why I'm here. Fortunately, if you can keep these two and the guard quiet, it appears no one else knows that a silver wolf has rejoined our society. At least, not on the angel side of things."

"That's good news, right?” The fewer people who knew about me, the safer we all would be.

"For now." Rosemary gestured to Griffin as she continued, "But if you two are fated mates, how long do you think your little secret can last?"

My heart sank. I hadn't even thought about that.

"I'll leave with her." Griffin made it sound so simple.

I jerked my head toward him. "You can't do that." Especially if what Rosemary had said about a civil war brewing was true. "You are their leader. Fate has determined that. You can’t leave when there’s so much at stake and wolves are being attacked."

"You're more important." He brushed his fingers along my cheek. "I'd rather do that than lose you."

"Dove is right," Rosemary said, making me cringe.

I was so damn tired of that name. "It's Sterlyn." She at least deserved to know that after everything that went down.

"Thank God. Because Dove is a horrendous name." Rosemary groaned.

"It is not." Killian frowned. "I thought it was fitting because of her hair."

"Ofcoursehe gave you that name." Rosemary took her phone out of her pocket and then glared at Griffin. "With the wolf attacks, if you were to step down, it would cause anarchy, and you know it. The best thing we can do is figure out who's after Sterlyn and go from there."

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