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Thank fuck Silas didn’t open his big mouth.

“Wouldn’t you like to know?” I said.

“The full moon is approaching. When are you going to continue to curse your pack like your bitch father did?” he started, his words harsher and his wolf on edge. The scar on his neck almost glowed. “And ruin more lives?”

“Get the fuck off my property,” I said through clenched teeth.

On the full moon, mateless fuckers like him might smell Ember and try to mate her. Usually, humans didn’t have a scent that lured beasts like us to them, but they did whenever they were fated to a wolf. And Ember would.

But I couldn’t mate her.

So, if someone else did, then I … then I …

Blood pooled onto the table from my palms, where my claws had cut deep into my skin. I tried to peel my fingers away, but I couldn’t. The thought of anyone else being inside Ember drove me fucking feral.

Ember and Hazel had been playing with me last night when they mentioned Cade. Sure, Ember might’ve known him, but there was no fucking way that Cade had slept with her. He was a man of virtue … wasn’t he?

A pussy like Cade wasn’t her type anyway.

I unballed my fists and stared down at the table, nostrils flared.

It doesn’t matter. Why? Because I don’t care about Ember anyway.

“Reaper,” Carl called from the counter.

Cade gestured to Carl. “That’s my cue. Hope to never fucking see you again.”

As he walked away, I beckoned my wolf to calm himself. If I took Cade’s head right here and right now, then my pack would be annihilated by Braveclaw. It wouldn’t matter if we still had the curse on our pack if we were all dead.

“Here’s your banana bread,” Carl said.

With a brown bag of banana bread in his hand, Cade sauntered right out of Java and headed in the direction of town. I gritted my teeth, slammed my palm on the table, and shot up in my seat, following after him.

For as long as I could remember, Cade loathed anything with bananas.

He wasn’t getting that for himself. That banana bread was for Ember.

When I shoved the glass door open, Cade turned on his heel, continuing back a few steps, gaze focused on me. “Did I say something to get on your nerves, Dav?”

I stormed up to him and grabbed him by the collar, slamming him into the nearest tree so hard that it cracked. The sound echoed through the woods, and the tree fell backward into a group of others.

“How do you know Ember?” I growled.

“Ember?” Cade repeated, brows furrowing. “How do you know Ember?”

“She’s—” I started, but stopped myself before I could make the mistake of telling him what she was to my wolf. He would use that against me to weaken me, and I couldn’t give anyone a reason to weaken me. “I asked you first.”

“She’s what? Huh?” Cade pushed, his eyes turning a shade brighter, his wolf right on the surface. He shoved me backward. “What is she to you? You saw her yesterday and wanted to fuck her or something?”

My nails lengthened into talons. “What’s it to you if I do?”

“You’re not going to fuck her.”

“Don’t think you get a choice in that matter.”

Cade’s eyes blazed gold. Then, suddenly, they returned to their human eyes, and he straightened himself out as if he had complete control of himself. “You don’t even know Ember. You’re just trying to fuck with my head. Go back to your shitty pack.” He stepped backward, gripping the banana bread tightly. “Heard you’ll be getting attacked. And it’s not by the pack you think it is, Davix.”

Chapter Seventeen