Page 10 of Wolf Tormented
We work side by side in silence for hours organizing the shelves as best we can.
“Jara?” Angela calls from the top of the stairs.
I don’t look up from my task. “I’m in the storeroom.”
“I found an idiot that still hasn’t listened to his cousin.” She marches down the stairs with Alex right behind her.
“We had an enforcer meeting that I didn’t want to be late for,” Alex argues.
“The others had no problem being late,” she shoots back over her shoulder.
“I’m not them. I know that the alpha likes punctuality.” Alex crosses his arms over his chest.
McKenna grins. “You two are adorable.”
I choke on a laugh as Angela turns her glare on McKenna.
“Adorable?” Angela growls, and her eyes glow with her wolf. “I know you didn’t just call the beta of this pack adorable.”
That really pissed her off.
Alex pats her shoulder. “She didn’t mean anything by it, Angela. Calm down.”
Angela is quick as she grips his wrist and spins around, pulling his hand behind his back and twisting.
“Shit, okay, okay, I’m sorry,” Alex shouts until she releases him.
I shake my head and move over to another shelf to grab some things for Alex. “Don’t you know it’s never a good idea to tell a woman to calm down when she’s angry?”
“I just don’t get why she was so angry about being called adorable.” Alex grins and sits up on the counter. “You are kind of adorable. In a stone-cold killer kind of way.”
Angela huffs out an angry breath and turns away, giving me her entire focus.
I guess I’m the only one not pissing her off currently, good to know.
“What’s up?” I raise my brow as I put a few of the staples in a basket for Alex. We always have ravioli and SpaghettiOs in the storeroom for the pups, but I secretly love them too.
“We need a list of supplies to send to Jordan, and we wanted to make sure that we had space. We have to go meet the driver at the bottom of the mountain to get our delivery,” Angela says.
“It’s going to be here today?” I glance at all the shelves.
I thought we had a week or two before the next delivery.
“Yes, they are stuck at the bottom of the mountain now. We need to get down there.” Angela peers inside a box on a shelf before walking down another isle.
“Okay, we can do this.” I heft the basket up on my hip, stroll over to Alex, and hold it out to him. “You take these, and we will get this place ready for the delivery.”
Alex huffs out a laugh. “Fine, Mom.”
“Don’t let your mom hear you calling me that.” I plant my hands on my hips. “She will smack you upside the head.”
Grayson sent over only Ellie and Callie—my cousins—and my aunt after we traded ten of our pack members. My parents have not been allowed to come yet.
Dread pools in my gut as I think about the situation. He’s holding people hostage and only trading those I’m not super close to. I hate it.
I love my aunt and cousins. Ellie has been thriving here in the Everette pack, but I want my parents out of Grayson’s pack.
I have no idea what’s happening with them or if they are even still alive.
