"Please tell me you're not seriously considering taking it with us back to the pack house," Nicholai says to Maverick, barely sparing me a glance.

"You mean her," Maverick corrected as he threw a shirt on.

"And yes, I am very serious. She's coming back with us."

"You cannot."

"I'm the Alpha, Nicholai. I can do whatever I want."

Alpha? The word echoed in my mind. What did that mean, I wondered.

He was fully dressed now. He had tied me to a tree like an animal, while he dressed so I ...