Ajax gently runs the back of his hand down the side of my face. “You’ve been quiet.”
We were already walking back to the house after Ajax said a few brief announcements to the pack and leaving Jeremy to do his own.
An echo of Jeremy’s voice could still be heard from where we were. He was reading out a list of everyone’s duties for the week and their training schedules. The training schedules sounded longer than the list of duties.
“I’m fine.” I quietly told him, doing my best to smile, but it didn’t quite reach my eyes.
Ajax’s amber eyes narrowed, looking around. “Did something happen? Did someone say something to disrespect you? I should go back there to teach them a lesson.”
He looked ready to run back to the center of town to punish someone.
Or do something worse.
Panicked, I
