Chapter 54
Macy had watched Cassidy run off after dropping the news that her son had rejected her. She was shocked to hear that bit of information and as it sank in that shock turned to outrage. There was little on this earth that could shock or anger Macy Black but hearing that her eldest who had been in search of his mate for nearly ten years had rejected the one woman who would ease his spirit certainly did the job. It took just over ten minutes of power walking for her to reach the pack house and by the time she had, she was good and mad and sporting a temper she surely passed onto her oldest son. Everyone always assumed it was the Alpha male that had the bad tempers, but the packs retired Luna was an exception to the rule.
James and Julian were both standing over the desk when Macu
came in, slamming the door open hard enough it bounced off the wall behind it. Both of the men looked up, Julian looking concerned and an annoyed expression on James‘ face. Julian quickly came around to comfort his own mate, but Macy threw a hand up to warn him off before her hands slammed down on the opposite side of the massive desk, she facing her son. “What did you do James Black?” she asked in a barely controlled fury. It was one of the worst insults and cruelty a wolf could do to another by rejecting its own mate… and she raised her sons better than that.
James was annoyed at his mother when she came in on what looked like one of her dramatic displays of anger and he did not have the slightest clue to what she could be angry over now. When she accused him of doing something without explaining further, his jaw clenched and he calmly started putting away papers and maps. “And just what have I done now mother? Has max tattled on me for ordering him to get out of your claws and go train with Hunter? I assure you… he is more capable that you allow him to be.” James said in a cool voice, his words making his mother take in a sharp intake of breath. Maxwell Black was James‘ favorite brother if he had to pick one. Max was the youngest and after a difficult delivery coming almost twenty hours after James, Max had been born blind and weak. Macy had fiercely protected max and sheltered him, but now at twenty five James was pushing his brother to be more that what he had grown up as.
Macy growled lowly and she wanted to throw something at her oldest child, or take a switch to his backside. She did not believe in violence against her children but right now she was willing to make an exception. “This is about that girl. Cassidy. Who do you th-” she didn’t get to finish her sentence as James let out a powerful growl.
“What about her?” he said, leaning against the desk and glaring at his mother just as she was glaring at him.
“YOU REJECTED HER!” Macy yelled in his face. “We raised you better than that! She is your one chance James and you just threw her away! What in the hell were you thinking?!”
Julian had stood back when his mate came in like an angry firestorm. She and James had butted heads since he was an infant. They were both headstrong and stubborn, each refusing to compromise. When James mentioned Max, Julian was just going to look the other way. He had tried himself to curb Macy from protecting their youngest son like she had, but you never came between a she–wolf and her pups if you wanted a warm place to sleep at night. When Macy said James had rejected Cassidy he looked sharply over to his son who had gone silent and was clenching his jaw in anger. “Answer your mother!” he snapped, his eyes on James now as well. Alaric had told them they were mates, but nothing more than that really.
James glanced up at his father briefly when he was ordered to answer his father. If there was anyone in this pack that had any kind of authority over James still, even after he challenged and fought Julian for the right of alpha, his father still had the alpha blood in him to demand obedience. “At the time… I wasn’t thinking. I thought I had turned her. I believed she was human… and my wolf turned her. I only figured out she was my mate when her wolf came forward. Then I rejected her because at the time… I believed she and jett were with the rogues that had been attacking.” He explained in a calm voice when on the inside he was twisted up with guilt and shame over what he had done.
Macy had gone still, her green eyes chilling cold. “You don’t deserve a mate. The sooner she leaves, the better for her.” She hissed between clenched teeth. “Ill even help her pack and give her a ticket to anywhere she wants to go!” Macy had meant her words, no she–wolf should have to stick around through a rejection. Her words triggered James so quickly that Julian had grabbed her and pulled her back away from her son as his temper snapped and in his fury at the mention of someone sending Cassidy away he had swiped his desk clean, sending everything flying off of it.
“SHE IS MINE!”
Chapter Comments
cowwax
good for her!!
Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.