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with
me.”
    “You’ve got to be kidding me. What about
the injuries you caused her? Or the ones you caused to us? Are you going to be
punished for any of that?” He thought that he’d paid dearly for their injuries,
but said nothing as he reached for the screen again. “You touch that door again
and I will blow what little of your dick is left off you.”
    His hand snapped back so fast that he
hurt himself when his hand hit his ribs. He’d been surprised when he’d not
healed right away, but his doctor, his own personal one, had told him it was
because Sapphire was an alpha bitch. He knew that she was an alpha and hadn’t
realized the law about injury to another one of his kind and the problems it
caused. He had wanted her simply to rip her throat out before she figured out
she was a good deal stronger than he’d ever be.
    Jeffery was just reaching for the door
again to teach the bitch a lesson when one of the others, he thought it was
Opal, stepped up behind her grandmother. He knew he could make her do what he
wanted if for no other reason than he’d scared her badly before.
    “Open this fucking door and let me in.”
She took a step back, then another. “You fucking heard me, cunt. Open this goddamned
door now.” When Sapphire was suddenly in front of him, he started for the door
again. Then someone wrapped their arm around his throat, and he could only
manage a strangled cry when the man spoke.
    “You talk to her like that again and I
will personally see to it that you never speak again.” He felt the arm tighten
as the man sniffed him. “I have your scent now, and if I find you in my
territory again, I will do just what I said.”
    He was tossed against the wall beside
the door as the man held him there with a large hand to his back. Jeffery would
have struggled, but it was all he could do not to whimper and beg the man to
let him go.
    “You hurt?” Jeffery started to tell him
he fucking was, but realized he wasn’t talking to him. “Did he touch any of
you?”
    “No. He wasn’t going to either. But I
gotta admit I’m damned glad to see you.” He glared at Annabelle as she went on
about how happy she was that he’d shown up.
    “I’m going to deposit him in his car. Do
you think that when I get back we can sit down and talk? All of us?” Seconds later
he was being turned around and pressed against the wall again. He got a good
look at the man who would dare attack him.
    “You’ll pay for this.” He nodded. “Do
you have any idea who I am? What I am to these women and you? Alpha, you dumb
motherfucker and—”
    His head hit the wall three times as
stars danced around his vision. Before he could say another word he was picked
up and thrown off the porch and near the limo he’d come in. The driver didn’t move
when the man from the porch barked at him to stand down, and Jeffery found himself
being lifted again and thrown in the back seat. The man loomed in the open door
as Jeffery curled into a fetal position, the pain was so great.
    “I’m Blair Henson, and this is my territory, you fucking prick. You come near what is mine again and I’ll do more
to you than Sapphire ever did. And this time you won’t live through it. I’ll make
sure of it.” He stood up, and Jeffery finally got his tongue back.
    “She’s supposed to come back with me to
stand trial. She injured her alpha, and that’s against all pack laws.” The door
slammed shut, and before he could get to the door and open it again, the car
was moving. And from the way he was being thrown around he would say they were
going pretty fast.
    He was bleeding again by the time he was
back to his hotel. He wasn’t sure what the staff thought about him coming in
all bent over and bleeding, but at this point he not only didn’t care but
almost wanted someone to put him out of his misery. Christ, he was sick of this
shit.
    Lying down on the bed, he tried to work
through the pain his body seemed riddled with. His head was pounding so