cka

e gaze held hi

orward, placing himself just slightly in front of me, his broad bac

that it froze the words in my mother

. Montgomery," he said, his voice dangerously soft. "T

mbarrassment, but she knew better than t

ited in my chest. But it was exting

oring Jame's authority. His eyes were fixed on Candice, filled with a sickeningly

r!" The words we

h a disgrace!" Brice shot back, and his

. "Mom, look at what she's wearing! A man's shirt! She was probably o

nce fell ov

. I saw a flash of pure, malic

arged with the chilling pressure of his Alpha pheromones. B

l!" she shrieked, her voice escalating into a hysterical tirade. "You have brought n

"If your father could see you now, so wanton and pro

e supposed to love me. I looked at them-my mother, my brother, my

m them was the solid, silent pre

lips. It was a ho

my voice eerily calm. "I don'

d Jame's protective shad

ricka Montgomery, am no lo

. "You don't have a daughter. And I

to silence. They had pushed me my whole lif

, settled on the moonstone necklace

ould be damned if I let the

e waves of my own pain and fury reaching hi

stop me.

just have to f