C42 Pain and Power

GRAYSON

“You’re a Mortar?” I said.

Adalee smiled brightly and took a step back. “Congrats, Alpha,” she said. Then the smile suddenly fell from her face. “You’re not as stupid as you look.”

That was the final straw. No pack member of mine would speak to me like that— vampire or not. I was her alpha!

I lurched the top half of my body forward