Page 28 of Rejected Wolf's Secret Baby (Rejected Moons 4)

Lonnie scowls. “I’ll lay it out for you,” she says. “If she’s got a baby, that’s a threat to the alpha seat.”

“Ababyis a threat to you now?”

“Babies grow up, Brandon.”

“Well, you weren’t planning on being alpha forever,” I point out. “Eventually the next generation will take over.”

“Yes,” Lonnie says. “Myson. Not my sister’s.”

“Do you even know if it’s a boy?”

“It could be a boy.”

“So why don’t you just find out if it is before you go off the deep end?”

Lonnie shakes his head. “Having her back here was already enough of a problem,” he says. “Now she’s got this baby that she clearly didn’t want me to know about.”

“If she didn’t want you to know, then how did you find out?”

“David told me. He’ll tell anyone anything.”

That’s true, actually. David’s like a sieve. You can’t trust him with your secrets, or really with anything you don’t want the whole pack to know. He gossips like a woman. “Okay,” I say. “So what do you want to do about it?”

I’m testing him. He’s been sending up a whole lot of red flags lately, and if he suggests violence toward Alicia’s baby, it’s going to push me over the edge. I don’t want it to come to bloodshed, but Iwillfight him at that point. I don’t care what the consequences are. We can’t have a baby killer as our alpha.

But he doesn’t go as far as I feared he might. “We need to get her off the pack lands,” he says. “She wants to live in the human world? Fine. Let her go and live there. Let her be one of them. She’s not one of us anymore. We don’t want her here.”

“Well, she’s planning to leave eventually, right?” I say. “She’ll take the kid with her when she goes. That problem will solve itself. You don’t need to do anything.”

“No,” Lonnie says. “Not good enough. She could change her mind. She’s temperamental.”

Oh,she’stemperamental?

“She changes her mind about things on a dime. She’s left and come back twice already. How do I know this is the last time? Maybe being back here will convince her that she really wants to be part of the pack. Maybe she’ll decide to stay. I can’t risk that, not now that I know she has a kid. She’s getting in the way of my plans,” Lonnie says.

“I don’t get why she’s such a big deal,” I say. “You have two other sisters, and I’ve never seen you act like this about them.”

“They’re no threat,” he says. “Pat’s married to a dishrag. He’ll never challenge me. He’d be more likely to sprout wings and fly. And Kayla’s the biggest slut this pack has ever seen. She’ll never mate with anyone. Even if she wanted to, who would ever have her, used up the way she is?”

Fucking hell, he’s such a dick. “You’re not worried that someone might get with her to try to break into the bloodline, the way you’re worried about Alicia?”

“If anyone was going to try that, they would have done it already,” Lonnie says. “Nobody’s willing to settle down with Kayla. It’s obvious at this point. And she’s not going to settle down either.”

“Just relax about it,” I say. “Alicia will be gone soon enough.” The thought makes my heart ache a little, but I force that emotion away. I need to stay levelheaded here.

“Not soon enough for me,” Lonnie says. “I want to her out of here. Now.”

“How are you going to do that? She’s within her rights to be on the pack’s territory. She’s still one of us by blood, even though she left.”

“So we’ll just have to make her not want to be here,” Lonnie says, baring his teeth. “If she hates it enough here—if she doesn’t feel safe—she’ll want to leave and go back to hercivilizedlife. Alicia hasn’t been around shifters in decades. She’s not used to the things we can do. She won’t be prepared to cope with a little harassment.”

“You’re going to try to run her off our territory?”

“It’s the best move,” Lonnie says. “Then she’ll be out of my life, and she’ll take that brat of hers with her. I’ll be able to stop worrying about her and go back to planning my ascension to alpha.”

He is really twisted.

“I’m going for a walk,” I say. “Can you get out of my house now?”

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