Nobody moved for what felt like forever and the tension was so thick I could barely breathe and my hand was gripping the bag with the Shard so tight my knuckles hurt and Jax stood in front of me like a wall between them and us.

"The Shard stays with us," Jax said and his voice was calm but I could hear the steel underneath it and the scarred Alpha whose name I still didn't know laughed this rough ugly sound.

"You think you get to decide that?" he said "That thing is too dangerous to be in the ...