Chapter 44: Illegal Challenge

(Aaron POV)

We knew that Danny had plans to make sure Cassie rejected Jason tonight, but no one knew what those plans were. When Candy walked in and kissed Jason, it was pretty easy to figure out what had happened and who was behind it all.

It was also pretty easy to fake being mad at Jason for the situation, because the truth was, I still was. Jason never should have bedded that she-wolf. He jumped to conclusions about Cassie without giving Cassie a chance to explain. He of all people should have known better; what he did was almost the same thing that Allison did to me years ago.

When I saw the hurt and pain in Cassie’s eyes, I almost said “f—k it” and bailed on the careful plans we had laid out. Goddess knows, I wanted to. I desperately wanted to comfort Cassie and tell her it was almost over.

But I couldn’t. Not yet.

I had expected Jason to blow up, but even I could not have expected Jason to blow up quite as spectacularly as he did. Challenging both Alpha Fred and fut