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his hand up and drew her attention
towards him. He gave her a smile.
    “It’s just Marcus.” He
offered and watched her nod.
    He turned and yanked
open the door. Shoving Marcus backwards away from the cabin door, Jackson
stepped outside into the morning chill and breathed in a long breath. He looked
at his brother.
    “You do it?” Jackson
asked and Marcus nodded his head.
    “Dead guys gone.” He
shook his head. “They ain’t gonna find him.” He assured his alpha. “The cars
over in Gorston. Wiped and parked up like it was driven by a Nun.” Jackson
snorted a chuckle.
    “Alex’s house?”
Jackson asked and Marcus nodded backwards.
    “Shane and Reece
cleaned it up last night.”
    “Reece is back?”
Jackson eyed the man’s cabin for signs of life.
    “Yeah. He appreciated
the welcome home.” Marcus grinned and that was cut it short when the alpha
growled. “So what’s the plan?”
    “None yet. We need to
wait for her ex to show up…” Jackson turned back towards the door.
    “Then we kill him?”
Marcus growled.
    “Then I kill him.”
Jackson corrected him.
    “Got it.” Marcus
understood his alpha’s words. Nobody touched the human but him.
     
     
     
    ~^~
     
     
    Alex had a coffee but
she wouldn’t eat anything. He didn’t know if it was because she was sick, because
she couldn’t force it down, or because she didn’t trust his cooking. Whatever
it was he didn’t like it, she needed food to heal, everyone did. Her body was
burning more energy as it healed and he needed to entice her to help herself.
    He was still wondering
how to get her to eat without having to force feed her when she tried to push
herself up to her feet and he was at her side in a heartbeat. He heard her
catch her breath as the pain went through her body. His hands were gentle and
well placed to miss everywhere that was bruised as he steadied her.
    “What the hell do you
think you’re doing?”
    “I need to get home.”
He couldn’t stop the growl that rolled through him.
    “I know you’re not
insane, Alex…” He offered.
    “Jackson.”
    “No. If you have a
damn death wish you’d better shake that shit off.” He growled again. Alex bit
of an ironic laugh.
    “I don’t have a death
wish.” She tried to brush his hands away, but he wouldn’t let go. He was
lowering her back down to the sofa as gently as he could and there wasn’t a
damn thing that she could do about it.
    “Sure you don’t.” He
growled every word. He was pissed off that she’d even considered walking back
into harm’s way.
    “I need to be there if
he shows up.”
    “Yeah, that sounds
like a damn death wish to me.” He slid onto the cushion beside her, careful not
to jog her too much.
    “I have to kill him.”
Alex bit out. Then she heard her own words and rolled her eyes to the ceiling.
“Ok, so that sounded insane.”
    “Yeah, because that’s
my job.” Jackson watched her bring her eyes down to his. He saw the shock
there. Watched as her brow furrowed.
    “No.” She shook her
head.
    “I don’t think you get
to argue…”
    “The fuck I don’t.”
Alex bit out, raising her voice and making his bear growl inside of him.
    “Alex…”
    “I’m not getting you
involved in this…” She bit down on her annoyance again. “Any more than you
already are.”
    “This is…”
    “My damn fight and I
will kill that bastard.” Alex assured him with the sound of steely determination
in her voice that he admired.
    “What the hell did he
do to you, Alex?”
    He saw her withdraw
then. She bit down on her lower jaw and closed her eyes for a long moment. She
didn’t want to share everything yet, and that was fine. But he needed to know
one day…

CHAPTER FIVE
     
     
     
     
    “Just know that he is
everything that you are not.” Alex informed him and Jackson frowned.
    “I don’t know what
that means, honey. Take pity on me, I’m male.” He gave her a small smile and
was more than rewarded when she smiled back at him.
    “That