the room, her freaky, purple cat eyes fixed on the naked wolf on my sofa. He growls at her, and all the hairs go up on her back. "Change of mind. Good to see the dog didn't eat you. I have things to do." I watch as she runs back into the bedroom and kicking the door shut behind her. That was a poor rescue attempt, or whatever that was. I step to the side, the glass cracking under my shoes, and I thank my common sense for not changing out of them earlier.
"Don't leave," he commands me. "I have not given you permission."
"I'm going to get you a blanket," I say, walking across the room. "And you know what? I don't need your permission, whoever the fuck you are. I'm pretty sure it would be illegal for you to kill me, and Sera would be the one who suffered if you did. So try speaking to—" I cry out as he slams me into the wall, somehow not really hurting me as his hands grip my hands tightly above my head in one smooth motion. I’m stupid as all I can focus on when we are this close is how his eyes are as gray as heavy, rain-filled clouds that always appeared when my dad said we should have a barbecue growing up.
Saying the word barbecue pretty much conquers storms in Scotland.
"I am soon to be alpha of every wolf shifter in the world, and I make the rules about what is illegal between our kinds and what is not. If I want to fucking murder you here and now, I could and would," he growls, making me shiver.
"Alpha is a leader, right?" I ask.
"Yes," he mutters, the gray, stormy eyes are so much more this close up. Making me want to dive right into the storm and not look back.
"Then why would you risk war to kill me? I'm not special, aren't your people worth more than your anger?" I ask.
"I think you need to stop talking real soon, girl," he warns me.
"That's not something I do well. Talking is a nervous twitch of mine, and you currently have me pressed against the wall while you’re naked and threatening to kill me," I reply to him, and I’m speaking way too quickly. His lips twitch for a second.
"Javier!" Sera's voice rings across the room, and Javier drops me like a bowling ball, letting me fall very ungracefully to the floor and as he turns to his sister. I sit up to see Sera throw a blanket at him and he ties it around his waist before hugging her. She looks over at me and pushes Javier away, running to me as I stand up. "You're bleeding, Lexi. I'm so sorry; my brother is nothing short of a possessive fool at times."
"I'd call him a right prick, but possessive fool works too," I say, narrowing my eyes at Javier who glares right back at me.
"Javier! Say sorry right now! Lexi has nothing but protect me and treat me as her equal. She doesn't deserve this!" Sera demands.
"Alphas do not say sorry. Ever," he replies.
"Well, I'm sorry, Lexi. Are any of the cuts bad?" she asks, moving around me and looking at my leg. I flinch as she pulls something out of a cut on my shoulder and comes back around. "Everything looks small. Go and sit down, and I will get the first aid kit. At this rate, I should just leave it out," she mutters.
"Might be a good idea," I say, and she chuckles at me, before turning to Javier.
"You sit down too, Jav," Sera says, but she isn't as commanding as her brother. To my surprise, he goes and sits down on one of the chairs, and I sit on the sofa, as far away as I can get from him. I pretty much ignore him, hearing his huffs every few seconds before Sera comes back and sits next to me on the sofa. I turn my back to her, forcing me to face her wayward brother.
"Why are you here, Javier? You know Father would be so mad if he knew," Sera says as I flinch as she cleans the cuts on my back with what feels like wet antiseptic wipes. Smells like it too.
"I had to see you are okay. You know I don't agree with all this," he replies.
"But there isn't anything you can do here but cause a war, Javier," she tells him.
"You're my