Thirty-Nine

Parker's P.O.V.

I saw red.

My blood pumped loudly in my ears, silencing the world around me as I held my wolf back from slaughtering the traitor. Jack shook beneath me, his head turned as he submitted, giving me easy access to rip his throat out.

Everything in me was fighting the urge to give in and kill him like the traitor that he was.

I heard my name yelled out by several voices, but only one made it through the fog. Her soft call to me was so different than everyone else who was yelling or trying to order me to back down. My wolf pulled back in my mind as I continued to hold Jack to the floor.

'Why? Why do you always go out of your way to hurt me? Why couldn't you just let me be happy? That's my mate they're after! Because of you, they're after Kaylee!' I snapped my jaw in his face, satisfied when he flinched away from my teeth as I continued to snarl at him. 'You're a traitor! You're dead to me! I should rip your throat out right now!'

The feeling of several arms pulling me