Claiming My Wolf
Chapter 30

~~Micah’s PoV~~

The way that Sadie is looking at Logan is making me feel a little sick. She’s acting like he’s the hero when I was the one that did all the work! I tracked her down and I stopped the wolf from attacking, but he’s the one with the gun and the one that can speak to her, so he gets all the credit.

As usual, my contributions count for nothing.

We all start walking back towards the Millers’ house, me and the twins still in our wolf forms, when Logan turns to me. “Micah, we’re okay without you. Why don’t you head back to the pack house and see what you can replace out?”

I’m torn between being flattered that he wants me to take his place at the pack house and annoyed that he’s sending me away from Sadie. She is still my responsibility, after all. But he’s my future Alpha, so I obey as graciously as I can. I try to catch Sadie’s eye before I go, but she’s only paying attention to Logan, and that strange, slightly nauseated feeling passes over me again.

When I get back to the pack house, I shift and grab a spare pair of pants from the stack by the door before heading to the Alpha’s office. It’s still buzzing with activity like it was earlier, but at least everyone is less tense now that the immediate danger is past.

“Micah,” the Alpha greets me as I come in, and I feel a little pride that he’s taken the time to address me personally. “Where’s Logan?”

Oh. That’s why he’s paying attention to me. The pride drops like a weight in my stomach.

“He’s helping Sadie get home,” I answer, trying to stay professional.

“And she’s okay?” he follows up.

“Yeah, but the wolf we captured, he said there would be others coming for her. He said there’s a big bounty on her head and a lot of rogues want to claim it.”

That gets his attention and everyone else in the room’s too. Suddenly all eyes are on me.

“He was here for Sadie?” the Alpha asks me, his eyes focused intently on me.

I didn’t realize they didn’t already know that, but I nod confidently. “He spoke right to her. He seemed to know who she was.”

“Come sit down,” the Alpha invites me and I go to sit across from him just as I’ve seen my father do so many times before. “You’ve spent a lot of time with her this week. Have you noticed anything unusual about her?”

“Unusual?” I repeat, not quite sure what he’s getting at. I’ve noticed plenty of things about her. The way she tucks her hair behind her ears when she’s concentrating. The way she rolls her eyes when someone says something stupid and she thinks no one’s watching. The way she puts her hand over her mouth when she thinks something’s funny, probably because she doesn’t like her laugh. That’s my guess, anyway.

Or the way she makes me feel when she smiles at me. It’s only happened once or twice, but it was a good feeling. I liked it.

I’ve decided that my initial weird feelings towards her were simply because she was something forbidden. My family would never accept the idea of me with a half-human girl, so it made the whole idea of her kind of exotic and a bit dirty, like some kind of strange fetish.

But now that I’ve got to know her a little bit, it’s different. She still turns me on, I have to admit, but it’s not for the same reason. Half the time I forget that she’s only half wolf at all.

Sometimes she’s just Sadie.

But I don’t think any of that is what the Alpha means about noticing things, and he quickly confirms I’m right.

“Any kind of signs of something different about her?” he asks me. “Any strange things happening when she’s around? I’m just trying to figure out why anyone’s interested in her at all.”

I bite back the reply on the tip of my tongue, which is that there are lots of reasons why people would be interested in her. Again, I know that’s not what he means.

“I haven’t noticed anything like that, Alpha. She seems like a normal girl.”

The Alpha sighs as he nods. “That’s what I thought too. But if you do notice anything, let me know.”

“Of course, Sir.”

He’s about to dismiss me, I can tell, but then my dad walks in and everyone in the room turns to him. His eyebrows raise a little when he sees me sitting across from the Alpha, but he ignores me to address his superior.

“I’ve completed the initial questioning, Alpha. They’re all giving pretty much the same story as the wolf we caught earlier this week. Someone, but they don’t know who, hired them to kill the half-breed, with a bonus for the wolf who succeeds.”

“Sadie.” My growl takes everyone in the room by surprise, but my dad most of all. He turns to me with a stern look of disapproval.

“What did you say?” he asks icily, daring me to repeat myself.

He expects me to back down, but I’m an adult now. I answer to my Alpha, not to him. “Her name is Sadie. It’s not hard to remember.”

The tension in the air is thick as my dad and I glare at each other, neither of us willing to look away first.

Finally the Alpha clears his throat. “Thank you, Beta. Micah had already told us the same thing about the intruders, but it’s good to have the confirmation.”

My dad is taken aback by that and I can’t help feeling a bit smug. He didn’t expect me to have the information before he did.

But my smugness is short-lived because the Alpha dismisses me in the next breath. “You can go home now, Micah.”

I don’t want to go. I want to stay and help figure out what’s happening, but there’s nothing I can do but bow my head in submission.

As I get up to go, the Alpha calls out one more thing after me.

“Good work tonight, by the way. You’re well on your way to being a key part of the team.”

That’s enough to send me out of the office with a smile.