Chapter 25

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I smile through Cat's outro while Phil holds her puppy for the camera. As soon as the camera's off I'm up and ready to go, we were already delayed because Simon wouldn't let us leave without him and if we don't hurry Lauren's going to get suspicious. "Thank you so much for letting us play with your puppy but we have to go." "Oh, ok. See you guys later?" I nod as Phil hands over the puppy and snags Simon. Finally we're out the door and closer to exacting the revenge Lauren deserves. We hop in the car and drive further into pack territory, after about 5 minutes we hop out to greet some pack guards. "Hi, I'm Alpha Howell. This is my Beta and his mate. We're here to see the Luna." "I don't think so," the guard sneers as he shoots Simon in the leg. There was nothing I could do but help as Phil launched into battle killing guards left and right. It's they fault after all. You don't hurt someone's mate, ever. Before I know it I hear Lauren screaming at us to stop and out of pure shock I do. I barely note the tear tracks on her cheeks as I shout my frustration, "Lauren they shot Simon! They abused you! They don't deserve to live!" "Dan it wasn't their fault!" "Then let me at least exact revenge on your mother!" "You can't!" "WHY NOT!" "BECAUSE IF YOU KILL HER I HAVE TO LEAVE YOU!" "What?" Lauren pants through several deep breaths before she can answer, "If you kill my mother than I have to take over as pack leader and I will have to stay here with the pack." I could feel myself reel with the shock of it all. "Lauren I. I should never have. Lauren I never meant to." "Where's Simon?" "He's over here," answered Phil, I still couldn't form a sentence to save my life. What had I done? I should have just listened to Sam. I shouldn't have second guessed my mate. I shouldn't have lied to her and gone behind her back. I shouldn't have come here. I shouldn't have "What is all this commotion?" "Mother." "Disappointment. What are you doing here?" "Leaving." "Again?" "Don't." "Why are my men dead?" They attacked our Beta's mate." "Where is she?" "Not your Beta, Mother." "What other 'our' is there?" "Me and my mate's." "Oh, yeah sure. He totally exists." As Lauren argues with her mother, the abomination, I catch a glint in the corner of my eye. It's the pack Beta slowly stepping toward worst-mother-ever in law with his hand clenched around, what is that? That glint in his eye... Is he going to?

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