Chapter 87 : True Leader

MAXINE. A scream builds up in my throat, crawling up to my mouth until I almost let it out. Theo is quick to move and cover my mouth, but the damage is already done. Jonathan’s voice rings all over the place. “Take this trunk to my tent, now.” My pulse is still racing. It really is Jonathan. I can hardly believe it. I can’t believe that this is the happy, cheerful guy that I met months before. Now his voice is tinged with the same kind of tiredness as Ajax’s, and perhaps even a trace of the cruelty that the Alpha Supreme has. I know they’ve been working together and he chose to do that, but it’s possible that he’s just under an order to act this way. Still, I can feel ripples of shock between me and Theo. I can tell he’s floored by all of this, but he just keeps his hand on my mouth as we feel the trunk stopping. The clasps are once again undone. I swallow hard as the lid flies open again. I feel a pair of hands digging around the blankets, and all at once, our cover comes off fro