Zara scoffed in disbelief, “You must be joking! Go back to wherever it is that you came from.”
“I am dead serious, Zara. "I can’t do this without you!” Joel didn’t bother hiding his eagerness. If anything was going to convince Zara to help him, it was that.
Zara was not convinced. She had just been shot down by the alpha. Now, was the beta put in charge of the task coming to ask her for help?
“I do not like to repeat myself,” she muttered and tried to sidestep him.
Joel moved and planted himself firmly in her path. “Please,” he said, his eyes begging more than his lips.
Gone were the days when he wanted Zara dead; right now, he needed her. He was not equipped to handle the weird things that were happening in the pack.
“Get out of my way!”
“You cannot turn your back on us now, Zara.
