I messed up

Arielle’s POV:

I knew that I had said the wrong thing, and it was going to bite me in the butt if I didn’t do anything to fix it.

The very sight of my mate, who looked to be fuming, silently and dangerously, made me rethink every wrong word I have said.

I knew that I had been upset, anxious to be standing in the presence of the entire Pack Elders and being looked at like I was a fly stuck in a glass cage. I couldn’t take the heat and I left.

“Say that again, love,” he said, which brought me back to reality. “Say that it was a mistake just one more time.”

I opened my mouth, only to find my throat dry, and I, the chronic mute unable to say anything in my defense, the same way I had been the first time Richard introduced be as his mate to the pack Elders. Now, it was my turn to defend myself before him.

However, he didn’t even give me the time to do so, and he looked away from me, his jaw visibly taut with the way that he was clenching it.

“Richard, I-“

“Save it, Arielle,” his tone made m