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Currently, they have Margot on a social media blitz, scheduling a few official appearances, including a Make-a-Wish fan interaction with a radio appearance at a popularradio station.

It’s all in the hopes that Carnell will make a play for Jay. It’s fucking dangerous, and the image of that sniper in the mountains flashes through Grayson’s mind, this time from the top of a downtown high-rise.

Jay had never looked more like a traditional Pack Alpha than when he had brooked no argument and forbade Leo, Rowan, and Luca from being at his side for their safety. Only Gideon will accompany him because his son was safe from Carnell’s machinations, and it has pushed Leo into a rare display of extreme anger for the second time since they’ve landed in Clearwater.

Grayson can only remember one other time in their pack history when there had been no democratic vote on the idea, and that had been Nix’s choice, not Jay’s.

It doesn’t feel any better now than it did then.

At the loud noise, Luca and Nix both freeze, eyes wide. He can’t blame them, as an angry Leo is a sight to behold; attractive and forceful. So much so that if Grayson were a betting man, he’d bet Gideon and Rowan are sitting on the couch with proverbial popcorn in hand (the former) and a hand inside his sweats (the latter).

Grayson prefers to be out of the way until the initial burn has simmered into a stony silence.

“What’s Leo doing in the kitchen? He’s not going to actually cook anything, right?” Nix whispers incredulously and runs protective hands over his belly as if to shield their babies from the idea of Leo’s unskilled culinary assault.

Grayson has to agree, that’s probably the scariest thing he’s heard all day.

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