“What the the hell were you thinking?!” I hear Gio yell at me the second I open the door to my Alpha suite to him. I knew he’d head up here. Here to protect the girl he wants. Hero complex and all. “Oh f**k off. I’d drunk too much. You’d pissed me off. I know you have a soft spot for her. Plus it’s revenge for that d**k too. Perfect really.” I say. I see a darkness cross Gio’s face. He and I had been friends for years, having grown up together since my Dad had brought his Dad to pack after losing the previous Beta of the pack. They had met at a training camp years before and remained in contact ever since. After losing the Beta in a pack-on-pack dispute with another pack, my Dad had decided to bring Carlo Romero and his family to our pack in an unprecedented move, in order for him to be

