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"We’ve got to get going," Doahter in his voice, and when I shifted on the bed to look at hi the title against you?" I asked, forging , as if he was a pesky flea and nothing to worry about, but in all honesty, out of all the males I had met so far, Dominic was the one I worried about

He didn’t answer His eyes were dancing with amusement and he chuckled as he rose frohter was enough to answerup "I ht not haveit" Part of ht then and there and end this … whatever this was that was brewing between us, but I couldn’t No I wouldn’t I was going to do this by the rules Every e me once I overthrew the alpha That was the point of this ceremony, and I needed to defend the title with honor and witnesses, not in a brawl in a grungy ht, I would either be taken down or I would re

Dolanced over his shoulder at et this over with"

CHAPTER 5

~ JADE ~

The walk hoh the woods It ran froht past my house It was probably just Do about, but the whole way hoe At every bend in the path,was hidden around it, and the hair on the back ofshivers down my spine After the first twoAidan (or Dominic for that matter) up on the ride home

Me and my stupid pride! That’s pretty much what it all boiled down to I was too proud to ask one of those stupid dogs for help And Aidan, well, I couldn’t think of a good excuse for that Stupidity was pretty much all I had there

I wondered if Aidan knew about the olves I was pretty certain that he didn’t If he did, he wouldn’t have faced off with Do him to stay clear of the pack, but each tiheyes He’d probably think I was a lunatic

"Jade, where have you been?" Marcy yelled from my porch step, as I stepped out of the tree line "I’ve been waiting for hours" She raced over to"Don’t scare ht arms off of my waist "Really, Mac? Hours?" To say she was a little dramatic would have been a co kind of people, and she applied it to every aspect of her life There was never a s I loved about her theblond hair behind her ears "Okay, rabbed"Did you hear the news?" she asked, as she plopped down, taking ht She didn’t even take a breath for me to answer before she huffed and muttered, "No, of course you didn’t I shouldn’t even know yet"

"What news?" I asked distractedly, noticing that the oversized driveas elanced at my watch, 4:15 Where were my parents?

"If I tell you, you have to swear not to breathe a word," she said, giving ruossip phase It started about apiece of ‘news’ that I couldn’t breathe a word about It usually consisted of as dating who, or what one of the she wolves had worn; a bunch of useless information, really But like I said before, she was an all or nothing kind of person, and gossiping was no different fro else At least her information was harmless to those she talked about Marcy didn’t have a etting comfortable, and waited to be bombarded hatever had sparked her interest today