Seeing Aspen pacing in her bedroom was enough to soothe my beast. “Lead with the part where she is okay next time,” I bit out, retracting my fangs. “My apologies, Alpha.” Ivan seemed like he wanted to bolt and I didn’t blame him. It was rare of me to hulk out like this. The impending rut must have been affecting me worse than I thought. “Go on,” I tried to sound nice. It came out garbled with my wolf. Oh well. I tried. “Molly had Aspen in the conference room again, harping on her for not giving a better performance during filming.” The human should die. I was still seeing red through my wolf’s vision, but I wrestled my beast back down. Watching Aspen through the video feed on my laptop helped. She fell onto her bed with a dramatic huff and my wolf gave a snort of laughter. “This is

