Ditched Cheating Alpha, I Led My Daughter to Life's Peak novel Chapter 159

I put my hands on my hips, glaring at him. Suddenly those green eyes look as menacing as the first day I met him. "Listen, Ethel."

Everybody's eyes widen. Ethel stares at me a lot like that time when I walked in on him in the bathroom, like a deer caught in the headlights.

I don't care. I glare at him. "If Suzie wants to talk about the things she did and offer a real apology to me, I'm all ears. But until then..." I give him a look. I hope he gets the message. And so help me god, if I find out Carson's giving Suzie private apologies I'll just rip someone's head off. Starting with Ethel and ending with her. And Carson's too. Everyone. Everyone can get their heads ripped off. He just made me so mad.

His face falls. He sighs and looks at me in a way I've never seen before. And suddenly the guy who I never really thought I could take seriously proves me wrong. "I get that you're upset," he says. "If the roles were reversed, I probably would be too. Maybe I wouldn't even consider any of this, but that doesn't change the fact that you're the luna of this pack, and one of your pack members is suffering."

He buries his hands in his pockets, but he doesn't once break eye contact. "She lost her best friend, Juliet, after that court case, and everyone's been treating her really bad ever since, because not only does the luna hate her." He shifts his gaze from me to the brothers. "But the alphas have been giving her the cold shoulder as well to keep you happy. I'm not asking you to like her. I'm not even asking you to give her an apology if you can't stomach that, because we all know you're not the one at fault here. I'm just saying, she's my cousin." He looks back at me. "And she's really depressed right now, and I'm worried about her, so..." He shrugs. "Please, I guess? You know I only ask you for things when it's serious."

Math equations start flowing around the brothers' heads. "You only what?" Carson and Axel give him sketch-alert looks, but it's Aiden who actually says something of substance. "I'm sorry," he starts. "But when have you had time to ever ask her for anything?"

Ethel's look turns from serious to horrified.

I step in for him, saying what I know is best for this situation-because I always know what's best to say to calm the brothers down. "That's confidential information," I say.

Aiden gives me a cold look. I guess that's not the answer he wanted, but I just wave him off. I don't pay him, or the other two brothers' furious glances, any mind.

Ethel has only asked me for two things before, in the short time we've known each other. The first, to help Aiden when he was going through his whole 'imprint not mate' thing. The second... when he-as in Ethel- forgot to do his English homework and needed to copy mine. He claimed it was for the greater good of the pack or the universe or some crap like that. When he asks you for something, he makes it seem like his fate is literally in the palm of your hands. I'm convinced he's the master of manipulation, behind that seemingly unassuming demeanor, but I fall for it every time. This is the line though. This is the limit.

Suzie?