Emery’s POV
“It’s me. I am Claire Simmons.” I said making my voice as strong as possible.
He knew Claire was a Beta Female, so she obviously had to have a strong voice to go with her rank and my usual soft tone would not convince anyone that I was a Beta Female. I needed to muster all of the strength I could to pull this off.
I could hear audible gasps from the crowd and I knew that some of them had to have come from either Cameron or Claire or both but I couldn’t risk looking in their direction and shifting Penrod's attention on to them so I remained locked in my staring contest with Penrod.
Truthfully I was very nervous. I didn’t know if my plan would work but all I knew was that I couldn’t let him take Claire when she was about to give birth. That was my main concern at that point,
