Each word made her shrink a little more. “I—I’m sorry, I didn’t—”

She didn’t have a choice either. I knew that. “It might have been you I saw in the Moondream last night, but that doesn’t mean there is anything between us. You’re weak, cowardly, and feeble. You don’t even know how to hunt. I need someone who can be a leader, but you have no place alongside an Alpha. So far, you’ve been nothing more than a liability.” The venom stung as it poured out of my mouth, but I ...