Chapter 25

Lecture Time 'Is there something you'd like to share with us?" My father only used this sickeningly sweet voice when he was seconds away from exploding, and it made me wince on the inside. 'I don't think you really need me to tell you what happened," I pouted, knowing he must have been informed of all the gory details before I even got to eat the Chinese take-out with alpha dearest earlier. 'Humor me," he drawled, his tone somewhere between a warning and pure sarcasm. 'Jonathan made me flustered and I took it out on the tree," I sighed, looking up into his usually warm brown eyes to show him I didn't have anything to hide. 'Flustered?" he chuckled darkly, 'just flustered, neither angry nor furious?!" I nodded in dismay. 'Besides your emotions running obviously high, the problem is you didn't purposefully take it out on the tree, am I wrong?" the atmosphere was thick with contained anger. 'Yeah," I sighed yet again, averting my eyes in shame, 'I didn't intend for it to happen."