Chapter 40: Fighting Over Me

Scarlett’s POV

I froze.

The ringing in my ears grew so loud it drowned out everything—even the wind rustling through the trees.

His woman?

I slowly lifted my head to look at Ethan, searching his face for any sign that this was a joke.

But there was nothing.

His profile was calm. Cold. Unreadable.

​"What?" Alpha Lennox choked out, the word sounding like it had been physically punched out of him. His face shifted from rage to confusion. "Ethan, you cannot be serious."

​"I said what I said," Ethan replied, his voice authoritative. He didn’t look at the triplets, though I could feel their collective rage radiating off them like a furnace. "I bought Scarlett’s contract when she was being auctioned. Technically, she belongs to me. And since I am staying here for the next few days..."

​He paused, his grip tightening around my waist as he pulled me flush against his side. The heat of his body was overwhelming, making my head spin.

woman stays here.

fixed on where Ethan’s hand rested on my hip. Leo’s claws were fully retracted, but his hands were shaking so hard I thought he might

voice full of

know her well enough to know what she’s worth. More than any of you apparently did, considering you let her get hauled off to a

Obsidian guards instantly shifted, their hands moving to their holstered weapons. In doing so,

them, dismissing the most powerful men in the territory as if they were nothing

Alpha Lennox called out, his voice full of anger. "Ethan, I am the Alpha

threw back over his shoulder. "As for Scarlett, consider her debt to this pack paid in full by the five hundred thousand I spent to get

into my back. I wanted to turn around. I wanted to scream that I wasn’t anyone’s "woman."

center of the grand foyer. He let go of my

voice finally returning. "Why would you say

oak

I could even blink, he was in front of Ethan, his

tight as he snatched my arm and yanked

my waist, pinning me to him so tightly I could feel the thundering

back on me for two years, yet now he

He didn’t shift. He didn’t even look angry. He remained terrifyingly calm, slowly straightening the

Instead, he turned his head toward the two older Alphas standing by

your sons to return Scarlett to me. I don’t want to have to shed blood in my grandfather’s house on my very first

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