Kimmy I needed a way to be able to reject Lennon without Xander finding out about it. But even if he did, he wouldn’t banish me or anything. I’m his little sister; he’d never want to hurt me. “I, Kimberly Black- holy hell!” As I tried to get out the words to set myself free, I was struck with an intense pain in my side. It felt like someone had shoved a knife between my ribs, and all the wind was knocked from my lungs. “What the f**k?!” I wheezed as I crawled around my living room floor on all fours. Then I remembered: deliberately disobeying my alpha had consequences; painful ones. If I wanted to reject that prick of a mate of mine, it wasn’t going to be pretty, easy, or painless. And that made me hate him even more. When my phone began to ring in my purse, I made m