Aleks spat out a laugh at his uncle’s gentle warning that he should stop trying to win my attention.
He didn’t understand that Rayden was trying to protect us both; Aleks was going to end up hurt and humiliated, and my secret would be revealed before there was any chance of dealing with it quietly and without issue.
“You do realize you aren’t Alpha, don’t you?” Aleks was trying his hardest to cling to his pride. He was glancing over at me again, and I think he may have been hoping I would stand up and declare my love for him with a fiery passion. He looked back at his uncle, and tried to stand as tall as him, “you don’t get to tell me who I can and cannot pursue, and Ares sent me to get her new things, so he obviously has no issue with my interest in her.”
I saw that Rayden was tense. H
