The Four Beta Brothers – Chapter 84

AXEL

“What are you doing to her?” I demanded.

Juniper cried out and hunched over. Remy still held onto her hand, and even though it was clear that Juniper was in a lot of pain, the sorceress didn’t let go of her.

cking as I heard her anguish.

I said, unable to keep the growl out of my voice. The need to protect Juniper became overwhelming, and I started walking forward. “You need to stop this.”

e had his forearm pressed against my throat. It was hard enough to restrict my movement, but I could still mostly breathe. “Don’t move,” he cautioned.

ow.

myself. “Remy warned you that you can’t interrupt the process. You said you could handle it, but clearly you can’t. If I need to drag you out of this room by the skin of yo

hand on Blade’s arm. “Let him

er on my neck.

er trusts them. We have to give them that same trust. Remy warned us this wouldn’t be an easy process. They have been open and honest with us. Let them do what they need to in order to help Juniper.” Asher locked eyes with me.

it feels like they’ve lied ab

thing about the situation, but Asher was right. They warned us it would be dangerous to interrupt the process. The last

restraint.

ensed.

upt the process. I just want to be by her side so she knows

, “Fine, but the moment you try anything, I won’t hold back.”

t to Juniper. Asher followed my lead, kneeling on the other side of

over.”

touched her other arm, and she visibly relaxed even more. “We love you, June. Don’t forg

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JUNIPER

outed, running outs

ed, running as fast as I could to keep up with him.

n. He had a bag tucked in his other arm, and he seemed almost panicked.

followed him, knowing

over. I couldn’t control any of it, and I couldn’t stop it.

place.

wouldn’t stop racing after the drastic way James woke me up, followed by the run to the tree house.

d pacing back and forth, unable to sit down.

oked like a bunch of official papers with a bag of some sort of powder. “I don’t understand. What’s bad?”

.” James was speaking too quickly, and none of it made much sense.

bbed his hand and forced him to stop pacing. I

to spend with me, but this was different. He wasn’t irritated. He was scared.

a and his family, so he can take over his position,” James whispered.

e?”

frantically searching through the papers. “I didn’t think he would, but he’s ruthless. You know that.”

e, even when I made mistakes, and every time I heard Beta Burrell scolding my friends, it made me sick.

the alpha.”

since we still had werewolf DNA, even if our wolves hadn’t emerged.

presence of a known wolf-killer.

s. When he found what he was looking for, he held it up for me to see. “I found this letter, too. My dad was planning on sending this to some sort of assassin that he hired to kill Alpha Williams. See here? It says, ‘CC, I paid you half, and here is the wolfsbane requested. You’ll get the rest of the money once the job is done.’ It even has his signature. This is proof of what he plans on doi

stared at everything. I knew what everything meant, but it all felt like too much.

on our own.

to confront him?”

sn’t time for that. Besides, there’s no way we will be able to get to him before he tries any

We have to do something,” I s

, and his eyes cleared. “We’re going to get rid of the wolfsbane. The stuff is hard to come by, so it’ll buy us time.”

oo far above my head.

m. We can tell him we know what he was trying to do

I shook my head, jumping to

save all of my brothers from him. We can stop him.”

treated his brothers, and while I agreed, I had never realized he held this much contempt for his father. “We will stop him, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to do it alone. We need

. But I don’t want to tell Ethan either. We’ll figure out how to take the bus and go to the alpha ourselves.”

by himself.

what your father would do,” I said, picking up the bag carefully.

xactly why I should do it. He would go easy on his own son.”

his sons compared to others. He held his sons to a higher standard than t

ybe not, but I can’t let you take this risk.”

nd we go with your plan, or I tell Ethan everything,” I said, already knowing which one James would choose.

eyes. “Fine. Just promise me you’ll be careful.”

cheek, instantly making him blu