Cole
“Leave it. She’s mine.”
Adriana splutters in my face, fire sparking in her eyes. It occurs to me that Bailey could be in real danger, the kind a human wouldn’t recover from quickly.
The kind that could leave permanent scars and necessitate a trip to the ER.
“You’ll leave the human the f**k alone.”
Adrianna gapes in outrage when I infuse my words with alpha command.
“You’re defending it, now?” She refers to Bailey as an it, like being a human is less than nothing. Everyone is f*****g watching us. Listening. Waiting to hear my reply.
I want to tell them all Bailey is under my protection. I may be hellbent on getting under Bailey’s skin, but I’m not going to set her up to get attacked. And that’s the only reason I feel this fierce, almost violent urge to protect her right now. But
