A second after the attack, Alice, mortified at the sight of blood, came back to herself and stumbled backwards. One of Julian’s older female family members caught her. Alice turned into her, frightened fn28b5 Read full story at Find?Novel/fn28b5

and hiding her face.

“What the fuck?!b” /bTony shouted. “Get that little shit away from me! Look what she did?”

At the same time, Julian rushed forward, bodily cing himself between Tony and Alice. “Don’t touch my daughter!” he roared, his voice bellowing with some of the fury of the wolf within him.

“She’s the one who attacked me!” Tony said.

I hurried forward too, when the shock of the moment wore off, moving straight to Alice. She peaked over and saw me, and then dashed over to me, crying, “Mommy!”

The older family member let Alice go at once, likely recognizing that the frightened little girl needed her

mother.

This kind of thing had happened before, but not since Alice got her ne. That sheshed out, shifting enough to hurt someone, told me that her ne was much weaker than it had been before. Since Chase had broken it and it had been restrung, I knew it wasn’t as effective as it had once been, but I didn’t realize it was as weak as this, to allow for this kind of thing to happen here.

The two men continued shouting at each other, with other members of the family getting involved now, making a cacophony of angry voices.

As Alice and I had gone through this before, when she didn’t have a ne to help her, I knew that the noise would only make things worse. Alice needed somewhere calm and quiet to help refocus.

Lifting her sobbing form up into my arms, I hurried, carrying her away and into one of the empty patient rooms. I closed the door behind us before leading her one of the beds. Gently, I ced her down and then

? examined her for wounds.

Her fingers were bloody, and I didn’t know if it was from Tony or herself, when her skin had torn to make

room for the ws.

“I’m going ito /iget a wet paper towel,” I said, signaling my every move. “The sink is right there.”

After Alice nodded, I stood and walked over to the sink in the corner of the room. I wet a paper towel then returned to Alice’s side. Gently, I cleaned off the blood. Underneath, I saw no sign of any wounds, which

was a relief.

The one and seemingly only benefit of the early manifestation of Alice’s wolf was the ability to quickly heal. I was grateful for it now, even as I cursed the wolf that haunted her into doing these things to begin

with.

bIt /bwas normal for a child to lose their temper. She was young, still trying to sort out her boundaries and her emotions. She didn’t have the experience to know how to control herself. That woulde in time.

As Alice’s own shock wore offb, /bshe said, “I didn’t mean to hurt himb, /bMommy.” Her hands were shaking bso /bI

held them both in mine.

“I know you didn’tb, /bhoney,” I said. “It was an ident, that’s all. He’s a wolf, too, so he’ll heal fast enough.”

“I keep doing these things… Hurting people.”

The smallness of her voice broke my heart.

“It’s not your fault,” I said, trying tofort her, but she aggressively shook her head.

“I got mad and hurt him,i” /ishe said. “I did that.”

“It was your wolf,” I said.

“But I did it, Mommy. Me.”

Alice pulled her hands away from mine and touched her ne. We both looked down at it. Just

looking at it, with the way it seemed less impressive than it had when I had first seen it, I knew the

power within was dimming.

And I knew it would only get worse.

Julian’s POV

I was going to tear Tony’s throat out. That seemed like the only next logical step to my rage–filled mind.

After all, not only had this vile man pushed my little girl, then he shouted at her.

Yes, in between those two things, Alice had identally shifted and tore at Tony’s arm, but it had been

barely a scratch, really. If Tony had spent more time training for the fights he should be taking part in to

.defend his pack, and less time pampered in his ces of luxury, he would be able to more easily shrug off

a wound like that.

Instead, he was acting as if Alice had tried to rip his arm off.

If he wanted to really know what that felt like, I would be happy to show him.

“You didn’t warn us your brat was feral,” Tony growled. “bIf /byou had done what you were supposed to and married a woman of good breeding, maybe you wouldn’t have a child that was so wild.”

“Keep talking,” I said in response, my voice low. Inside my wolf through itself against the walls of my mind, begging to take control. “See where it gets you.”

“Both of you, stop this,” said Uncle Peter, but Tony and I both ignored him.

b“/bYou should have married Olivia,” Tony said. “Then we wouldn’t be in this mess at all.”

b“/bOlivia?” I repeated with disgust. The absurdity of this im drew my attention away from my anger for a moment. “Have you had your head in the sand, cousin? Do you have any idea what that woman did

behind my back?”

b“/bYou used her of trying to kill Amber, but we don’t know that for fact,” Tony said.

I growled in response to that, but that wasn’t what I was talking about.

“Olivia could not be faithful if her life depended on it,” I said. “bIf /bI had married her, she would have made a

mockery of the entire family and the Luna title as a whole. Those affairs would have made themselves

public eventually, as well as her inability to have children because of it.”

Some of my family gasped. Had they truly not known this? Did they not read the papers? Or had they

purposefully chosen to keep their heads in the sand?

“And then, yes, in her jealousy, she tried to have Amber killed. She also sent Chase after Alice, removing

the ne that protects her from her wolf, which has already appeared at such a young age, a terrible

medical condition, that forced her to shift. That ne is now damaged because of that action, which

was what caused her tosh out.”

“You have no proof,” Tony said.

I narrowed my eyes at him. “Why are you defending her so hard?”

He scoffed. “We used to be friends with her when we were kids. Have you so easily forgotten those daysb? /b

You really believe she changed so much from then to now?i” /i

“I know she did,” I said. “I had seen it myself, and been a victim of it. She is not the same girl she used to

be, Tonyb./bb” /b

In a way, his words eased some of the anger within me. We had all been friends since we were young.

Without having seen Olivia’s wickedness for himself, Tony wanted to believe that she was still that ullib/byoung girl. /li/ul

But she wasn’t. At all.

“Actually,” Penny said suddenly. “That woman we hired to be Olivia… Did anyone else think she was a little too simr?”

I nced at Penny, surprised that she had seen it too. Some other members of the family nodded.

“Honestly,” Penny continued. “I thought that was Olivia.”