[Ian]
I knocked at the door with my foot and stepped back. Melo opened the door. She looked at Bailey in my arms, then over at Gino’s corpse. With a nod, she stepped back, letting us pass.
Keaton’s eyes filled with concern as he stared at my mate. He cautiously approached me, but quickly stopped in his tracks when I let out a fierce growl. The atmosphere between us was thick with tension. It was a bad idea to get too close to a werewolf’s injured mate.
“What happened?” he asked.
“She fainted after killing him. Maybe it was just too much for her. She finally completed her revenge on him and her body just couldn’t keep her standing afterward,” I told him.
He didn’t need to know exactly what happened in there. That wasn’t for him, it was for us, for her. I would protect her until she dec
