Caged Between the beta and alpha
Chapter 17
DAMON
The tension that had built vanished the moment Azura spoke, replaced by shock.
Everyone had frozen, Aunty Red’s cheeks burned, a rare sight actually, but Uncle El simply smirked.
A small giggle from Raven made me glance at her. Although her cheeks were flushed, she was finding this amusing.
“Yeah, it doesn’t work like that.” Uncle El said pointedly to a very confused Azura.
“And you two need to be careful, there’s a kid in the damn house.” Liam muttered.
“I’ll remind you of that when your time comes.” Aunty Red shot back.
That made Liam tense and Raven’s heart skip a beat.
‘I mean it, I want you both to sort your shit out. This pack needs their leadership united.’ His voice came through the
link.
I knew we both could hear him.
‘Understood.’ I said, making sure Liam could hear too.
I wanted to sort this shit out, I really fucking did. I glanced at
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Raven. She looked hot. There was something about her. Although she was twenty-one, she was a tiny thing. I won’t lie, there were definitely things that I wanted to do to her, but I knew I had no fucking right to even think that right now.
“When I grow up, I’m going to be were-koala!” Azura stated.
“You can be anything you want, baby girl.” Aunty Red said, smiling down at her.
“Oo I want to be a were-panda!” Raven added excitedly.
Azura’s eyes sparkled with excitement.
“Yeah, you just need to gain about 150 pounds or so…” Liam remarked, smirking slightly as he looked at Raven.
I felt envious at that, wishing that we could have that old bond again with Raven. Every time I felt like speaking to her, the fear that Liam was going to lash out only grew.
But we did need to get our shit together, if not for each other, then for the pack at least.
Dinner finished and Raven offered to clean up, Aunty Scarlett agreed and took Mom to the living room with Azura, I had offered to help and even Liam stayed behind.
The tension that settled the moment the adults left was fucking palpable. Raven quickly began gathering the dishes, leaning over to reach the plates from across the table, leaning
on one leg with her other one raised, only making her perky ass a little too tempting.
‘If you are done fucking perving at her.’ Liam’s cold voice came in my head.
‘She’s my mate too.’
‘Funny you remember her now.’ He shot back. •
I didn’t reply, not wanting to cause even more fucking drama.
We headed back to the kitchen, and Raven began emptying the dishes into the bin.
“Who’s washing?” She asked.
“Didn’t you offer?” Liam asked, cocking a brow.
She frowned,
“Yeah, and so did you two. So, Liam you wash, Damon, you dry, and then when we’re done… let’s talk.” She said.
Damn.
The dreaded words: Let’s talk, that shit ain’t good.
“Not that there’s much to talk about.” Liam muttered.
Raven shot him a glare and I hid my smirk.
She was a tough one, like Grandma Amy used to say – she was a ‘tough cookie’. She really was, small and sweet, but a tough one.
“You heard the woman, get washing.” I said lightly, smiling ever so slightly.
“Shut it or I’ll fucking shove your face in the sink.”
“Want to try it?” I shot back,
clean the table. “You keep acting this way, but it just makes me feel like shit, knowing I’m the reason for you to being at each other’s throats. Fix up boys because I swear, I’m so close to being done.” She shook her head, turning and stormed out of the room, leaving us both feeling fucking guilty. “She isn’t wrong. We do need to sort this out. Now that we’re all back, we need to come to an agreement.” “So what? Tell me, how