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    - Jace -


    "I knew you shouldn''t havee." Josie turns to Knox, removing his arm from around her just as


    I push my chest into his.


    "What the fuck is your problem?" I growl out, my eyes now inches from his. He might be pissed at me, just like the rest of my family, but what gives him the right to be the one that acts out.


    "You." He jabs his finger into my chest, trying to push me back but my steady feet weren''t moving.


    They were cemented to the floor.


    "Take it outside." Dadmands out, putting his alpha aura behind it.


    I don''t take my eyes off Knox but in my peripheral vision I can see Mum cing her arms around Callie''s shoulders to guide her back towards the sitting room.


    Perhaps it was better for us to do this outside. My wolf has been eager to find an excuse to shift. I told him to wait until border patrol tonight, but he is pressing just beneath the veil...hopeful for the opportunity.


    I already find my feet moving to the front door...Knox and Jaxon following me.


    "Wait for me." Josie calls out behind, just as I exit the front door...Knox on my tail.


    "No." Knox growls out.


    "Kit." Josie clicks her tongue, she has never been one to be told what to do, and I don''t expect her to take it from her mate either.


    But, I''m surprised when she looks between her mate and me...seemingly contemting his words.


    "I said no."


    "You''re an arsehole.."


    "Yes, but I''m your arsehole." Knox takes a step closer to Josie, his arms wrapping around her


    lower back as he pulls her into a kiss. His lips then moving to his mark on her neck, her body vibrating. That mate bond between them getting to work.


    Their bodies like mas towards one another, something I don''t think I will ever be prepared to see.


    I turn away, trying to prevent the vomit threatening to rise in the back of my throat as I start walking over to the training field.


    It wouldn''t be exactly private, but if Knox has something to say...then at least my wolf cane out.


    Remind him of his ce. He may be my sister''s mate, but he isn''t alpha.


    "What''s his problem?" I grunt out to Jaxon as we reach the training field, Knox behind us as he breaks out into a jog to close the gap.


    "Let''s just say if it wasn''t guaranteed that he would hit you...then it would have been me." Jaxon tly responds, as if it was the most obvious thing to have happened.


    "Look, I''m sorry I bailed again....that I didn''t return your calls."


    “Uh huh, but that''s not what this is about." Jaxon eyes take on a darker tone, just as Knox''s fistes flying for me again.


    But I manage to duck out of the way this time.


    "You son of a bitch."


    "Josie''s issue is with me, you shouldn''t get involved." I warn him, he was crossing that line into sibling business.


    "I''ll get involved, when you leave her for dead!"


    "What are you talking about?"


    "The night of the wedding....you were pissed about something, so you fucked off...she went after you..." His rage is affecting his breathing as he makes circles around me, threateningly.


    Stalking me as the predator that he is. He just isn''t as strong a predator as me.


    "What happens between my sister and I has fuck all to do with you." I seethe out at him as I''m trying to y catch up.


    "Wrong, it has everything to do with me." His dark brown eyes turn a shade of ck, his wolf preparing to take control.


    "Remember your ce Knox." I warn out, my wolf now pressing forward. My shoulders rolling forward in preparation to shift. "Oh I know my ce Jace, it''s protecting my mate."


    "You think she needs protection from me? I wouldn''t harm a hair on her head."


    "But you already have. Your actions led her to be attacked."


    His words feel like a punch to the chest, they wind me as my eyes dart to Jaxon''s for rification. "What, who by?"


    "George, on the night of your parent''s wedding. After you ditched her by the hospital, she went


    inside and was attacked by George...if it hadn''t have been for Doctor Abel and Luna Rosa." "What do you mean attacked?"


    "Do I need to spell it out, he tried to rape her."


    The rage burning within Knox is now contagious as it starts to spread throughout me.


    George tried to force himself on my sister...I''ll rip his heart out.


    "I''ll kill him."


    "Don''t bother he''s already dead, as is Doctor Abel. As it a lot of pack members. The hunters attacked that night." Jaxon''s chin tilts upwards at his words, daring me to excuse my behaviour.