~ LARK ~
“Lark, you can’t—”
“Is this what last night was about, John-Paul? Distraction? So I wouldn’t ask questions? Are you manipulating me just like he did?”
“Of course not! No, Lark!” he snapped. “I would never—”
“You already ARE!” she screamed, and her entire body trembled with the force of it. Did he think she’d left her father’s home and her family just to become a pawn in his hands instead? Had he been hiding his true colors all this time? What the f*ck was happening? “If you go through with this, you’re no different than him—just one more prison.”
“Do not compare me to that b*stard! He wanted power—I want you safe!”
“That’s what he always said, too,” she hissed. “And yet, here we are! Different Alpha, same cage.”
JP shook his head, the little muscles at the back of his jaw t
