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Chapter 66. Bella POV
Lucien completely ignored Alexander, instead he climbed out of the ditch, pulling me up with his hand to stand beside him. Silently he looked him up and down in a stand-off. Alpha Alexander was not for moving though and I could feel the force of his anger attempting to cow Gitte into submission as one of his pack members.
“I will ask again, exactly what the fuck is the escaped prisoner and the assassin meant to kill me doing hiding in the woods, exactly where I am passing.”
Lucien breathed in deeply, he was taller and broader than Alexander, though both were hugely muscular men I didn’t doubt that Lucien would hold the edge in a physical battle. This couldn’t happen though, just because both men had ego’s and some weird unresolved tension didn’t mean it had to end in violence.
“We were actually coming back to assist, seeing as we just saw one of your closest Beta’s sprinting away from you I would suggest that you n
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