Chapter 48

I froze at his words, James stared at me, but I had to look away, totally bewildered by John’s absurd order to Turner.

" He would not order it..." I babbled.

I got up and started walking around the room.

" You don’t know your own husband, to protect you he would, it wouldn’t be the first time. " pronounced James and when I looked at him lying in bed, still wounded I noticed a certain grudge in his response.

" Can you disobey an order from the Alpha?"

He stared at me.

" I can. But I would never have peace, the order I did not fulfill would be day and night echoing in my mind, and gradually could drive me crazy."

I watched him horrified at John’s selfishness, condemning his pack brother to a life to protect me, and condemning me too, because if he died I couldn’t marry another, how could I love another as I loved him?

" John couldn’t have done that..."

" It wouldn’t be the first time he tried to protect you. " he muttered.

" What?"<