Chapter 25. Differing Opinions

Ainsley

Throughout the night, I tend and check on Liam periodically.

From experience, I know as long as a shifter is still breathing, nine times out of ten, they will recover from whatever injuries they’ve sustained. Brutal fights like that are in our nature. We protect what we want to keep safe, and with that sometimes comes serious complications.

Thankfully, with the help of my patching, he seems to be doing okay. He just really needs rest.

Coming up on him fighting Eli and losing is an image I’ll never be able to get out of my head for as long as I live. My mate is a strong alpha. Seeing him pinned down so easily had been terrifying.

If I never showed, what horrible mess would Liam have been left in? Would Eli have let him live?

It wouldn’t surprise me to find out if my father gave strict kill orders to anyone who stood in the way of taking me—whether that be toward humans or otherwise. I doubt my father has any idea I have a mate, but n