“Kate, what is the meaning of this?” Dmitri demands, staring unblinkingly at Kate who stands with both hands on her hips, annoyed at the interruption, but still showing respect for her alpha. She shrugs, raising her hands as if in surrender. “She entered the ring by choice.” I can’t debunk that. He turns to me and suddenly I want to melt into a puddle of nothingness. Getting into the ring might’ve been the dumbest idea I’d went ahead with since coming to this pack house. First of all, which crazy, insane, deranged part of me even thought it possible to defeat the female gamma of a f*****g pack in physical combat? This isn’t the type of publicity I wanted. Not in the pack at least. I’d been stupid. Everything just felt so wrong. Dmitri prowls into the

