DENYING FATE

Atlas’s lowered voice sounded in my ear. “I’m not saying you can’t handle looking for Jacob, but you’ve made a very loud statement here today. Do you want to risk searching for Jacob, finding another few supernaturals to fight, and possibly coming back here beat to shit?”

Fuck.He made a good point. Mark was hurt. I was…not one hundred percent.

Unless I was going to rely on Tuck and his team, which I didn’t want to do, then Atlas was right.

It wasn’t that I didn’t trust jack’s people, but just as I’d said before, I wanted to prove a point.

I’d shown up here with a rejected House member, a supernatural who was supposed to be extinct, and a mate with powers most bear shifters had no access to.

We had something to prove as a whole, just as much as I did as the future Alpha Supreme to Fire and Fluorite.

There wouldn’t be a point, at any time, that we could appear weak. Even after multiple fights.

“Fine, but we leave again first thing in the morning.” I took a step closer to Mark. “Are you