Chapter 75

I’m not accustomed to feeling like a prisoner in my home. Samuel continually banishes me to the confines of my packhouse. Not that it does much. I still walk around pack grounds, greeting my pack members. Even if he gets angry about it. I am not the type of person who cowers in a tower waiting for the bad guys to go away.

Samuel, of course, isn’t happy about my resistance and has begged me to respect his orders. Respect is a mutual thing and I can tell he thinks I am beneath him. He talks politely enough but his side remarks and whisperings with his men and tries to act nonchalant when called out on it.

I know Ali's escaping bothers him. She bested him while being unconscious after all. That kind of blow does something to a man’s ego, especially a man whose ego is bigger than it should be. I think what worries him most, though, is knowing she is out there and that she now knows he is no longer the good guy. Someone is on to him, and it’s someone he fears.

“Alp