Lyralei stared at the Alphas in their deadlock about to fight because of her and it irritated her more than anything else that had happened today. She was still keeping herself low-key though because that fuck it feeling she’d had before jumping off the cliff had been dwindling fast, and she found herself unconsciously reverting back to her old ways of staying quiet and invisible. Three years of conditioning had been ingrained in her bones deeper than she’d realized.

She tried talking anyway by saying, “Surely you can all find a way around this without killing each other over—”

“Shut up,” Nikolai said without even looking at her.

Her anger...