The second Lila and Theo disappeared around the bend, I shut the door.
She had no idea what she’d walked into tonight—no idea she’d stepped straight into a house wired with claws, teeth, and four Alphas one heartbeat away from losing control.
“Ivy. Cassandra. Aria.”
Even thinking their names made my jaw clamp. They’d sensed the shift. They’d want answers. They’d think they deserved them.
They never had a claim. Not one.
“Take care of it,” I ordered, my voice steady but tipped with command no one in Ridge Storm ignored. “Before she wakes.”
Seth’s smirk was all teeth. Rory rolled his shoulders, mischief gone—just lethal focus now. Even Jaxon, who never spared his flings more than a passing thought, looked ready to drag every last one of them out by their hair.
“Don’t let them cry abou
