Wolf Endangered (Willow's Forbidden Pack #2) - Avery Song Page 0,63

joy, and I could only imagine how deadly his eyes appeared at this moment.

The two men were shaking in their spots, and it only took a few seconds for me to catch onto the beginning droplets of blood that were rolling out of their ears, followed by their nostrils, eyes, and slightly opened mouths.

By the time they lost the ability to hold the very guns in their grasps, blood was leaving their bodies like grand rivers.

Neo came into view as he walked out from the hall into the room. He passed by the guards like they were mere statues. The movement triggered the release of whatever had frozen them in place as they gurgled upon the very blood that pooled in their mouths and dropped to their knees, the very glint of life in their eyes beginning to fade away.

By the time Neo was in front of the desk, the two were face-planting onto the floor, their inhales coming to an abrupt stop, along with their beating hearts.

"You're not the type to give me colorful roses." The feminine voice only confirmed William had switched back to Willow, and my head turned over to confirm Willow now stood there with her arms crossed over her chest and her questioning, half-opened eyes were giving Neo a judgemental look. "Weren't you painting ten minutes ago?"

"I was," he said with a sly smile. "And the flowers are from Dimitris. He left them downstairs."

"I'm not going to ask how you managed to come from your place of serenity all the way down here, pick up flowers from the front desk, make those douches choke on their own blood, and executed blowing up that helicopter," she summarized.

"The helicopter wasn't me," he assured her. "That was Onyx."

Willow further frowned as her eyebrow arched.

"I'm not even going to ask," she concluded, her eyes coming to a close as if she couldn't keep them open any longer. My wolf briefly nudged forward, enough to get me to Willow in a mere step as my arm hooked around her to stop her from falling back.

"Crap. Willow?"

"She's okay," Neo replied as he laid the flowers on the desk’s surface. "She's asleep."

"Your level of calm is beginning to get on my nerves," I pointed out, my wolf riding up my ass to express our heightened impatience.

I disliked the fact that everyone seemed to be on the ball except for me. As their Alpha, I shouldn't be struggling like this. One mistake and those I swore to protect would be laid to rest due to my blind-sightedness.

Without delay, I scooped Willow up in my grasp, hoping we could get out of here before this office became a shooter zone. I could already hear the sirens from below and the approach of many people.

The shattered glass wouldn't have made enough sound to catch many people's attention, but that helicopter was unexpected and would surely need an investigation done seeing as it was only eight-thirty in the evening.

“Cut yourself some slack," Neo noted as he reached into the front pocket of his black dress shirt to retrieve the red blindfold that would soon wrap around his eyes. "You don't like to admit it, but you're still adjusting to Willow's awakening and her connection to the pack, aren't you?"

He hit the nail on the head, leaving me further annoyed. I hadn't dealt with the adjusting effects of having a wolf join the pack bond in a long while. Many Alphas made it seem like it was an easy thing to endure, but that was amongst the realms of shifters who held very little power.

The Forbidden Pack only accepted those who carried lethal benefits to our little pack. When Onyx had joined by signing on the dotted line, it didn't take me as long to adjust to his connection because he knew what Alphas went through by accepting someone close to their strength - if not stronger.

He briefly submitted under my power so the adjustments would be easier, and I had to applaud him for his consideration because I was able to recover without it disturbing my work and role in this pack.

Willow, on the other hand, is completely different.

She surely had no clue about the need for an Alpha to adjust to her power, and I'd been avoiding bringing it up. She'd just dealt with a shit ton of bullshit, survived her awakening after barely escaping the claws of death from her suicide, had an eight-hour meeting after telling the world of her gender fluidity, and