After her initial shock faded, Lizzie asked, “What do you mean, join your pack? That’s not going to happen.”
Louis scowled at her and asked, “Why do you have to be so difficult? Of course, you’re going to join the pack. You’re going to take your mother’s place since she so rudely ran off to be with your father.”
Lizzie narrowed her eyes at him and shook her head.
“It sounds to me like she did the right thing,” she told him, crossing her arms over her chest.
“Now, now, Elsabeth, I mean Lizzie, you will take your mother’s place within the pack, and you will be mated to Michael here as your mother was supposed to do.”
Lizzie’s mouth dropped open, and she looked at the man standing next to Louis’ desk. He already looked uncomfortable from the blow her father gave him and even more
