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“Hopefully my mate agrees with you,” I murmur, causing him to chuckle.

Chapter Three

Hailey

I can’t get Isaac’s words out of my mind. Has he really changed? Does he mean all those things he said?

He stays close to me throughout the evening, and I can barely concentrate on anything else. My wolf wants him, but I don’t. There is this constant war going on in my head that’s draining me of all my energy.

I feel like I can barely breathe with him so close.

When Penelope’s mom and her fated mate come to talk to everyone, I take that as my cue to sneak out and get some air. I know I won’t be alone for long since I’m rarely left alone these days.

I head outside and lean against the siding. I take deep breaths as I look up at the sky.

“You think you are something special, don’t you?” a voice says in a sneer.

I roll my eyes and turn to face the woman who thinks she’s too good for everyone in the pack.

“I don’t think that-” I start, but she cuts me off with an ugly laugh.

“You were nothing your whole life. Just because you were able to get a wolf still doesn’t make you anything now. Everyone will see what a pathetic person you still are,” she spits out angrily.

“What do you want?” I ask, trying to sound bored; but my wolf has become alert. Her hackles are raised, sensing this woman is a threat.

“You can’t have Isaac; he’s mine. He was supposed to be mine. The day Penelope mated to that runt Ryker was the day I was supposed to get everything. Then you come along and try to take what’s mine? I don’t think so,” she says before I see the change start to take over her.

I don’t think about anything else and let my wolf push through as I change and growl at Ashley.

She runs towards me and leaps forward, but I manage to dodge her in time. She slams into the ground on the other side of me.

I spend the next twenty minutes trying to dodge her while she continues trying to get the upper hand. Honestly, I’m surprised no one has come out to check on me. Just when the thought occurs, the door opens. I look at it for a second and that is all the time that Ashley needs to catch me off guard. She leaps at me with her teeth bared.

Her teeth latch onto my leg, and I try to shake her off me as best as I can. I hear a bone snap before she’s tossed off me with another wolf’s teeth on her throat.

I don’t shift, but a bunch of people run out of the hall and see the scene before them.

I look over at Ashley and see that it was Isaac that is still holding her throat in his mouth.

Ryker comes over to us looking pissed but, when he sees me with blood pooling around my leg, he pales for a second before running to check on me.

“It’s broken. I’m going to have to reset it before it heals wrong,” he says, looking me in the eyes. I know what he’s trying to tell me; that this is going to be painful.

I nod my head and brace myself as the pain takes over.

At some point, I find myself in my mate’s, no Isaac’s, arms. I can’t think of him that way.

Get out of that line of thinking, I tell myself.

“What the fuck was she thinking, attacking you?” Isaac growls.

I don’t say anything since I haven’t changed back yet, but a couple enforcers take Ashley to the cells.

I have only heard about the cells. They are just off the new alpha house that Ryker and Penelope live in. They had found a building in the back that was perfect in case they had to discipline any wolves or had feral animals that they couldn’t control. They spent days and weeks fixing it up and putting the appropriate bars and walls in so that no shifter could try to escape when they were being punished.

I think Ryker was more worried about feral animals, which makes sense since we live really close to the forcefield where they are being held. I don’t think he saw a need for using it for wolves to be punished. No one predicted that Ashley was going to go crazy and attack me.

I’m being lifted into Isaac’s arms. He starts walking, but I don’t see where he is taking me because I pass out before we’ve even made it a few steps.

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