Lyralei stared at them feeling totally confused and alarmed as two things suddenly became very clear to her. First, these Alphas were now interested in her which meant there was no escaping this situation no matter how much she wanted to. Second, she felt some kind of weird brief sudden attraction towards them, something that pulled at her chest like an invisible thread connecting her to all four of them. From their reactions and the space which they suddenly gave her, backing away like she'd burned them, they felt it also and were now glowering at her like this was somehow her fault. The dark haired one, Malachai, broke the tense silence by wondering aloud in his lazy drawl, "Should we just kill her right here right now? She's a complication I don't understand and complications tend to

