Layla's POV
Chelsea's breath hitched and a slight whimper escaped her as, this time, her trembling and shaking wasn't a performance, but it was very much real.
"If you're going to accuse my mate," he said, his wolfs voice reverberating alongside his own, "Then you had better make sure that your story is capable of holding up under scrutiny. This?" He scoffed lightly, "This is pathetic and an insult to my own intelligence."
The word mate had hit everyone in the driveway at the same time and as much as I wanted to deny it and scream and shout, Freja was giddy. He had claimed us as his publicly, whilst trying to protect us and in front of the elders.
There was no hiding from this for me anymore. He had taken that away.
My heart stuttered and I felt Kian's wolf surge forward s
