Rejected by My Alpha Now He Replaced Me with a Copycat Luna novel Chapter 102

Chapter 102

Raven’s POV

Rage clogged the air, clawing at my emotional shields. It was almost more than I could take, even after reinforcing the barriers with everything I had. But that’s what happened when you put five supremely pissed-off shifters in a tiny space.

I crossed the length of The Lair to the door I knew led outside. I knew it only because I’d seen it from the outside. Nox had covered the glass panes with some sort of blackout covering inside. The only light was the artificial kind.

But I needed the fading sun and some fresh air, anything to clear away the emotions battering me. I reached for the door handle, but a voice whipped out.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Asher barked.

I turned slowly, glaring at the grumpy man. My fingers curled around the handle. “Opening the door.”

The glass-paned wood swung open as if to punctuate my point, and Asher scowled at me.

“It’s not safe,” he ground out.

“You cleared the property yourselves. You know there are no intruders, and all this”-I gestured wildly around the room-“alpha male fury is giving me a headache.”

I shouldn’t have given him even that. It could hint at my empathic abilities. But plenty of wolves were sensitive to others’ energies, especially

submissives.

I breathed a little deeper the moment the fresh air hit me. I wanted to step fully into it and get some distance from the men and their anger, but I knew my mates wouldn’t like that.

Asher growled.

“Give her a minute,” Kael ordered. “This would be a lot for anyone.”

Shock pricked at my skin. If anyone defended me, I’d have expected Nox or maybe Dexter. But Nox was currently ensnared in a battle with the countless cameras he’d put on the property, trying to locate an angle where he could see the intruder’s face. And Dexter was pacing back and forth behind him.

“Thanks,” I muttered, dropping my gaze and letting the fresh breeze wash over me. I couldn’t hold Kael’s eyes. It hurt too much. Because I missed him and didn’t know how to close the gap between us. Didn’t know if I should even want to. Because the truth was, he could hurt me all over again.

Our circumstances hadn’t changed, I still had Michael Clyne’s blood running through my veins, and Kael had still lost his sister to my father’s vile evil. I wasn’t sure that was something we could ever get past.

“Then I should walk the perimeter,” Asher ground out.

“I’d think you’d be thrilled if a sniper got a shot off at me,” I spat.

Something flashed in Asher’s amber eyes, but he covered it with indifference so quickly I didn’t have a chance to identify it.

“Getting your blood out of Nox’s carpet would really be a nightmare,” he clipped.

That was more like the Asher I knew.

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Lulu let out a bossy meow, nipping at my heels as if trying to herd me back into the room.

“Hey,” I protested.

Asher’s lips twitched.

I glared at him. “Did you tell her to do that? Do you have some sort of mind-meld with her?”

Asher lifted both hands in surrender. “Lulu does what she wants.”

I knew that much was true. I bent down and picked her up. “Enough with the biting. I’m fine.”

She let out a meow that almost sounded like a bark.

“Okay, okay.” I stepped deeper into The Lair but stayed in the line of the breeze, hoping it would help.

The rapid-fire typing stopped. “I got something,” Nox said, his voice tight.

Everyone moved in behind him so we could see the screens.

There was a shot of the man from behind on the left monitor. Something about him tickled the back of my brain, but not enough to shake anything loose. On the right screen was a map where Nox had tracked the man’s path. But a close-up of a face was on the center display. It was slightly pixelated, but I could make out enough. I sucked in a breath.

Every head in the room turned to me, even Lulu’s.

But I couldn’t tear my gaze from the image. “I-I know him. I mean, I’ve seen him before. He was in the bar today.”

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