I stared at Ezekiel with wide eyes. That seemed an awful lot like he was protecting me. The way he had moved me behind him, had gone straight for Blake, had butterflies fluttering around my stomach. That stupid little crush was growing worse because he looked so fucking attractive putting his hands on him. The breadth of his shoulders, the pure strength he had to hold Blake like he was, like there was no effort at all on his part. I wanted to beat it down, there was no reason for that to get so bad, so quickly.

"I don't fucking know you!" Blake grabbed at Ezekiel's hands, trying to pry them off of his collar. Ezekiel only yanked him up further and snarled in his face until Blake almost went limp. It was something like submission, no matter how he tried to hide it, it was.

I watched as the same form of horrified realization seemed to wash over Blake's face as he actually looked at Ezekiel. It was just like when Antonio realized who he was except there was a lot more fear, it was palpable and sour. I wanted to laugh at that. I couldn't say much because Ezekiel, as he was now, intimidated the hell out of me. But seeing it on Blake's face was so fucking amusing. That was how he should have always reacted to Ezekiel. Ezekiel was more of a male, stronger, more intimidating, more calculative, and had a helluva lot more dominant.

"Listen, it wasn't my idea! I swear it wasn't!" Blake started quickly, his words almost rushing into one another. However as I watched with great amusement, I realized that Ezekiel, once again, was looking a lot more attractive and I didn't know how to exactly process that and it wasn't like I was given much of a chance to process as Vera lurched forward.

"Let him go! Get your hands off him!" It was almost a screech as she aimed for Ezekiel.

I found myself moving, my eyes narrowed, and I swung on her without thinking. My wolf snapped in my head, snarling, pleased with me over it. My hit grazed her as she yanked her head back and she gasped, as if with indignation. "Fucking bitch!" My next punch was definitely sloppy but it had the desired effect and slammed into her cheek.

"Fuck yah!" Hilla cheered and before I could move Vera had thrown her own punch. Except the bitch had thrown it and it drove into my stomach. The pain was nearly instant and I found myself hitting my knees, retching. The pain created a whine in my ears and I struggled to simply breathe. "Oh hell no!" Hilla's voice was a snarl and I looked up right as Ezekiel shoved Blake away and turned towards me. Which was promptly interrupted as Hilla yanked Vera down by her hair.

"You like taking cheap shots, you bitch!" Hilla drove her knee into Vera's face and despite the pain I was in, that radiated out from my stomach, I wanted to laugh at the cracking sound it made. "Yah? You like that? Fucking bitch! Keep your bitch ass hands off my fucking friend!"

Vera screeched again, trying to get Hilla to let go of her hair and when I was finally able to see Ezekiel again, he looked exasperated but he moved around the two females. He looped an arm around me and hoisted me to my feet. "Good?" It was gruffly said and I nodded with a grimace, pressing my hand to my belly. That had fucking hurt and I hated that it had dropped me. I wanted to be the one dragging Vera around by her hair.

"Are we just gunna?" Officer Dalen asked it and I flicked my gaze to them and the witch shrugged.

"I'm here to deal with poisoning, not assault. They can work it out." Officer Mars seemed amused and I was glad I wasn't the only one feeling that. Seeing Vera be drug around by her hair was almost cathartic. The cheap shot-ting bitch. Granted she didn't know about me giving birth but still.

Luiz threw himself into the mix, doing his best to peel Hilla off of Vera. "Madre luna! Let her go!" Hilla grunted as she yanked harder on Vera's hair and then Blake joined in, trying to separate the two of them as well.

"Mene, I love my job." Officer Mars chuckled as she watched, hooking her thumbs into her bullet proof vest. Ezekiel nudged me before he moved into the fray.

I reached for him, grabbing the back of his shirt. "Let it happen! Just let Hill beat her ass!" I yanked on it but he either didn't notice or didn't care but his dominance slammed outwards and it was enough to have me hunching my shoulders and resisting the urge to hit my knees. A hot and oppressive blanket that was forcing me downwards with every inch of its might.

"'Nough." It came out growled and filled with so much dominance that I groaned, my knees shaking. But it worked as Hilla let Vera go and even Luiz and Blake backed off. I could see Hilla sweating, much like I was, but Vera hit the ground and Blake soon followed. As much as it affected me, seeing those two hit their knees in front of Ezekiel was worth it, it was worth every fibre of my being being shoved downwards.

"Yo, calm that shit down." Officer Mars didn't sound too impressed and before I could even blink, Ezekiel grabbed the back of Blake's neck and lifted him off his knees.

"Calm down, everyone should calm down!" Antonio's dominance was flaring out as well, as if fighting against Ezekiel's.

Ezekiel didn't appear to be listening as he shoved Blake towards the two Hunters. "Speak. Now." It was calmly said but edged with malice and it even made me shiver as I felt my knees want to buckle. It reminded me of how he had been in the illegal rogue pack, as if he were more than willing to kill to get the message across.

I could see Blake struggling against it. It was a heavy command but he had already shown Ezekiel his proverbial belly. There was nothing he could fight against. "She made me do it! It was all her idea, she wanted the positions and I told her we would get caught but she told me to keep quiet." It was rasped out of his throat, the words gritted as if pained and I slowly crouched down. I wasn't about to hit my knees but I needed to be lower. "Look, don't fuck with me like this, man! I didn't know she poisoned you, not until after!" Blake turned to look at Ezekiel and Ezekiel's face was stone, as if carved from granite. There was no give, no emotion, nothing for anyone to cling too.

"Well, that seems to be exactly what we needed." Officer Mars gave a rather chilling smile at that and Ezekiel pulled back his dominance. I felt utter relief, my muscles shaking in exhaustion from my fight to not hit my knees.

"What the fuck, Blake?" Vera screeched the words out as she got to her feet, her nose bleeding from where Hilla had kneed her in the face. "So you're just going to pretend that you weren't on my side the entire fucking time?" She staggered over to him and tried to smack him. He managed to dodge, his teeth bared.

"Wait... you actually fucking poisoned people with wolfsbane, Vera?" Antonio sounded disbelieving. "How many people did you fucking poison?" He pushed off of the porch and through the pack members, a deep scowl on his face. I could imagine he was fucking pissed about it. I stood up, my legs shaking as I did so.

"No! It's all a fucking lie!" Vera whirled around, her eyes almost wild.

"We're fucking caught, Vera! Get it through your fucking skull! It's over, there's nothing we can do about it!" Blake snarled the words, his entire body shaking with what, I didn't know. Probably anger that their little game had been found out.

"You! You fucking made sure of it! You couldn't keep your fucking mouth shut. I should have fucking stayed with Ezekiel." She spat at him. Literally. I grimaced as it splattered on Blake's face.

He wiped it off, his eyes narrowed. "I think so too. At least then I wouldn't be about to be arrested. Here, you can fucking have her back. I want nothing to do with this crazy fucking bitch." Blake gave a wild gesture between Ezekiel and Vera and Ezekiel tilted his head. I wondered what was going on in his mind but Vera didn't seem to grasp what Blake said as she launched at him.

"Okay, that's our cue." Officer Dalen nodded once and then headed for them both, pulling out some cuffs.

"Gotta love leashing some dogs." Officer Mars chuckled and I rubbed my hands off on my thighs as I glanced between Ezekiel and Vera. She didn't know. I didn't know how the fuck she didn't, Blake all but said it, but then again she was Vera. She was so full of herself I doubted she would be able to see anything she wasn't the focus of.

"I want them gone!" Antonio's voice bellowed out of him as he reached the center of the mass of pack members. Everyone was talking and pushing inwards and I got jostled from behind. It sent my wolf and I's hackles up. I didn't like being touched, not when I couldn't see who it was doing it.

"Yah!"

"Lock them up!"

"Fuck this shit!"

"Let us take care of it!"

"Yah! Let us take care of these cheating bastards!"

"Good old pack justice!"

The shouts from the pack members were loud and I could see Luiz moving over to stand beside Antonio. Hilla was on her feet and she was watching Vera with narrowed eyes. It honestly looked like she was waiting for an opening to grab her again. That had my mouth twitching upwards in amusement. I couldn't blame her, I want to do the same.

I glanced over and Vera was smacking Blake's head as Officer Mars grabbed a wrist, cuffing it. "Let me go! Let me fucking kill him!" Vera was shouting it and when her other hand was grabbed, she started aiming kicks at Blake as well.

"This is your fucking fault, Vera!" Blake shouted the words, his face red as Officer Dalen started cuffing him. "You just had to be fucking greedy! You just had to be ambitious! I don't know why the fuck I stuck around as long as I did. I should have left you years ago!" Blake struggled slightly, leaning towards Vera. "You're a manipulative bitch!"

"Don't act like you weren't right in there you fucking bastard! You enjoyed it, you enjoyed every second of it!" Vera aimed another kick at him but ended up almost on her ass as Officer Mars yanked her backwards so the kick wouldn't land.

"She's your fucking problem! That's the only good I can see, is that she never broke your fucking bond!" Blake spat the words at Ezekiel and that, for some reason, seemed to actually break through to Vera.

"Wait... what?" She looked between Ezekiel and Blake and I narrowed my eyes. I didn't like her looking at Ezekiel. It was better when she was oblivious.

"For someone who probably thinks she's so smart. The fact you didn't realize your mate was here is just hilarious." The witch snorted in amusement and Vera's face paled as she locked her eyes onto Ezekiel.

I could see the realization and her eyes flooded with tears. "Ezekiel? Baby, oh my god! I missed you so much!" She tried to walk over to him and Officer Mars yanked her back. "Please, baby, you gotta understand. I missed you, I've missed you for years!" The manipulation, the desperation, was enough to have me want to gag. The fact she was using such a high pitched, baby-ish voice, was grating.

"Shut the fuck up!" I couldn't help snapping the words out as I moved towards Ezekiel. He held up a hand, giving me a look that pinned me into place. I sputtered. "You honestly don't believe her, do you?" I couldn't help how my voice pitched upwards in disbelief as he moved towards her.

Tears were streaming down her cheeks as she leaned towards him. "I'm so sorry, baby! I'm so fucking sorry. I hate that it happened! You were good enough, you were always good enough for me. I missed you, baby! I missed waking up to you in the mornings!" She was almost blubbering, her voice frantic and it was honestly fucking pathetic, even more so as Ezekiel reached out and pinched her chin, making her look up at him. "Yah, baby. I missed you too." She gave him a wide smile, a borderline frantic one. "You got so strong! You got so fucking strong, I missed that. You look good, so fucking good!" I wanted to ask Ezekiel what the fuck he was doing. There was no way he believed that blatant bullshit, that same tone she used whenever she had wanted something from him before all of this.

"Madre luna, you're fucking pathetic!" To my surprise it was Luiz who spoke up and Antonio grabbed his shoulder to keep him in place. "You got him banished! You think he's going to come back to you, just like that?" The pack seemed to agree and there was a lot of looks being passed back and forth but I almost puked, full on threw up, as Ezekiel lowered his head towards her.

What the actual fuck?

After all that fucking shit, was that fucker going to fucking kiss her?