Cronan is angry. Angry that after years of waiting, he's mated to the one wolf he never wanted.
Fen is stuck. Stuck in a state of purgatory that he doesn't know how to escape from.
After learning of his mate's crimes, Cronan never expected to see h...
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I'd seen a lot of expressions on Fen's face since he started staying with me. I'd seen what he was like drunk, jealous, happy, sad. I thought I'd seen just about every one of them, but the cold look in his eyes as he stared at the two men sitting beside Eli was something else.
Without saying a word, he pulled me against him and I briefly considered moving out of his grasp, but that idea was abandoned when I got of good look at his entire expression and not just his eyes.
He looked menacing.
"What's going on?" I finally questioned. "Eli, who are these people, and why are you in my house?"
Eli's gaze flickered to the men beside him. "I was coming to check on you after everything that happened at Reed's ceremony. I didn't know they'd be here." His gaze shifted to Fen. "Or him."
I mentally winced. This was all a mess. This wasn't how I wanted him to learn about Fen—not after the first time.
"Fen," The brown-eyed man who I recognized was an alpha by the aura his wolf was giving off, said.
"Nolan," Fen rigidly responded.
"So it was you," The man, Nolan, muttered. "In the woods that day. I thought I was imagining things."
I studied both of them and it finally dawned on me that this was Fen's former alpha. Or, at least one of them.
"What are you here for? To alert the council?"
My stomach dropped at the thought. Any werewolf who kept somewhat tabs on the current events knew that getting tangled up with the council was almost always a death sentence.
If he truly did alert them, that meant Fen could potentially be—
"I just want to talk," the alpha replied calmly.
"And you brought Atlas here for...?"
"It was him or Nixon."
Fen seemed to become tenser at the thought.
"What if I don't want to talk?" Fen said. "I don't have anything to say."
"I think you do. You owe me that much, don't you think?"
Fen frowned and his eyes shifted to me. I held his stare for a long moment and I don't know what he saw in my eyes, but he turned away with a sigh.
"Not here," he stated. "We aren't doing this here."
