Chapter 33

Cassie

"It's a good job you don't have any links to other packs or have a mate otherwise we would never have been able to bring you beee. Thank you for coming to help us Cassie. It honestly means a lot. Noah of these men would have died without your help." Scarlettes mate Mason said from behind my shoulder several hours later. He had arrived and picked us up at sundown and brought us racing to the Thorn Pack. Which was so small that I hadn't even heard of it before. How was that even possible? That there was another pack this close to ours and I didn't even know about it. It just went to prove how sheltered I had always been. There was a whole world out there that I had never seen.

And I never would now thanks to-

"Prince Julian."

I stiffened. That's exactly who I had just been thinking about but I didn't know how Mason had known. I knew I hadn't mentioned his name. Hell if Julian had known I was here he would be livid. Leaving and helping another pack could be seen as an act of treason.

Stupid stuffy wolf rules that made absolutely no sense in the real world.

"It's good to see you again Officer." Julian's thick velvet voice spoke from behind me and my spine snapped straight. How could he be here? What were the odds?

"Please call me Mason, your highness." Masons voice was quiet and submissive. But of course it was Julian was the heir to the king. Everyone was submissive around him. Everyone apart from me.

The only time I had ever been submissive was last night- I shook the thought away. Standing up from my patient I didn't turn.

"It's ok." Scarlette whisper hissed in my ear as I listened to the sound of Julian and Masons footsteps start to walk away. If I was lucky then they would leave and I could make my escape. "It's just Prince Julian and his beta Ian. They have come to strike a deal for weapons. They are friends of this pack."

"Ok." I whispered but my voice carried.

The footsteps stopped. "And who is this doctor you have working for you?"

I froze.

"Don't worry." Scarlette took my elbow. "Just act normal he won't know you don't belong to this pack." She turned me and I couldn't fight against her grip unless I wanted to make a scene. That was the last thing I wanted to do.

Keeping my head down I felt the weight of my husbands eyes on me and the anger pouring from him the moment he realised it was me standing before him.

"A very beautiful doctor." He murmured and I couldn't help it I lifted my head and stared straight at him.

"Now now prince Julian." Mason chuckled. "I thought you were a married man."

Julian ignored him totally.

"This is Olivia." Mason lied smoothly and it was maybe the worst thing he could do. Julian wasn't a forgiving man and he wouldn't forgive the lies that were being told to him. "She's newly qualified and works part time with my wife and mate Scarlette in her dance studio."

Julians eyebrows disappeared into his hair line. "You're a dancer?" His eyes raked over me. "Maybe I should ask you to dance for me." My husband's eyes lingered over my body and I glowered at him angrily.

He was enjoying this.

Turning sharply he dropped his head to Ian's ear and whispered something to him. Beta Ian's eyes never left mine and a slow smile spread across his face.

I didn't like that smile. It meant Julian had something particularly nasty planned for me. The one comfort I had was that he wouldn't do anything in front of the others. Especially others from another pack.

"Mason , Scarlette?" Ian nodded his head. "Let's go and discuss our arrangement further."

They left together, Scarlette gave me a warning look over her shoulder but didn't say anything. And what could she say anyway? You didn't say no to Julian.

"Come with me-" Julian's lips thinned into a sneer "Olivia." He used my fake name with a curl of his thinned lips.

"Julian, I-" I started to say but my words were cut off when his hand closed cruelly around my bicep and he dragged me out of the small clinic building. He didn't stop dragging me until we had turned the corner and was away from the bright lights.

He slammed me backwards into the brick wall and stepped into my space. Forcing me to crane my neck to look up at him.

"Look Julian-"

His fingers curled around my chin, yanking my head up higher. "No you look Cassie. What do you think you are doing here?"

"Helping." With his grip on my chin I couldn't look away from him. So I closed my eyes instead. This was all too familiar to what had happened last night and the memories of that were going strange things to my insides. I suddenly felt hot all over.

"You came here without my permission Cassie. You helped these people without asking me first. It's unforgivable?"

My eyes flashed angrily. "I don't need your permission to help people Julian. I'm a doctor." I stamped my foot. "This is my job. You don't get to tell me-"

The fingers around my chin moved, squeezing into my jaw painfully. I fought back the urge to cry out for help.

"Your job is to be my wife. And your rubbish at it. If anyone knew who you were then I would be a laughing shock." He hissed.

I didn't know what to say to that because I didn't know what was so bad about helping other people. Hell I didn't even know what rules I kept breaking. No one had told me and there wasn't a handbook to study.

"And did you help these men and women?"

"Yes." I managed to whisper.

"Good but you won't do this again Cassie." His voice turned into a low menacing growl that made me squeeze my legs together. "You will not go anywhere without my permission. Is that understood?"

"No. No you can't dictate where I go and what I do,"

Julian's smile was cruel but the look in his eyes was dark and heated. This was turning him on. He got off on making my life a misery.

"Oh little wife." His head ducked down as he curved his much bigger body over mine. I was trapped between his giant bulk and an unmovable brick wall. "Looking the way you do." His hands moved over my ill fitting scrubs he grinned. "I'll be dictating every aspect of your life from now on."