Before anyone could get the chance to follow that thought further, a cold voice rang out.
“What do you mean by that?”
Everyone, including Arden and Nate, turned to look at Kade in surprise. Though the large alpha’s body language seemed to be relaxed, there was no mistaking the promise of violence in his hard expression.
“Are you running a freaking tabloid?” he continued to ask in a belittling tone. “What are you actually trying to say?”
Unaccustomed to being challenged so directly, especially not in front of an audience that he considered to be inferior to him, Nate couldn’t come up with a response quickly enough.
It was Arden who found his tongue first.
“Kade…” he called quietly. But in the pin-drop silence within the tense office, his voice carried. “Don’t mind him,” he continued.
