“Forced?” Finn asked him. He was about to scoff, but something about Jacob’s tone stopped him. He gentled his voice. “Did he force you to do a lot of stuff you didn’t want to?”
“Some. He said that was what made a strong Alpha,” Jacob replied with a shoulder shrug.
Finn sighed. “Alpha Pullman is the strongest Alpha in the country, probably the world, and he doesn’t throw his weight around. He simply asks and people help. I hate to say this, but your father’s brand of Alpha was wrong.”
Jacob’s eyes flashed angrily before he slumped. “It doesn’t matter anyway, your precious Alpha Pullman won’t let me be an Alpha or have my own pack. Not that I could now, anyway, with being an outcast.”
“You attacked Cresswell,” Finn pointed out, with a raised brow.
Jacob nodded. “I did. His behaviour from the beginning was rude and I finally had enough and hit him round the head with a frying pan. We both then shifted and fought. Needless to say, I didn't win.”
Finn grinned. “A frying pan?”
“It was the closest thing to hand. It was a spur of the moment thing, I hadn’t thought it through. Cresswell was suddenly in the kitchen looking for something to eat and the frying pan was just there. I know it was a stupid thing to do, but what did I have to lose? I’d already lost everything.”
“Yeah, but now you’ve been labelled an outcast and lone wolf. Alpha Pullman is in talks with Cresswell to get him to overturn the outcast order.”
Jacob snorted. “I doubt he’ll do that.”
“You’d be surprised what Berni can do. Just have a little faith.”
“Yeah, because that always works out so well for me.”
“Did Fran find you last night or this morning?” Finn asked, sitting down on one of the table chairs.
Jacob sat opposite him. “Last night. It didn’t end well, but then he spent the night outside in his wolf form watching over me,” he said, remembering the blue tuffs on the wolf. His look softened a little.
“That was nice of him.”
Jacob rubbed his forehead. “Yeah, then I kicked him out when I found out he was a Pullman.”
“That was a crap thing to do.”
“What, I'm supposed to suddenly like Pullmans?” Jacob demanded.
Finn shook his head. “You need to get over your snit with the Pullmans and as soon as possible.”
“Yeah, I’ll get right on that,” Jason said with a fake smile.
Finn stood up and gave him a serious stare. “You’re an arse, Jacob Bishop. If you’re not careful, you’ll end up alone and bitter.” And before Jacob could say anything, Finn walked out of the lodge slamming the door behind him, and stomping over to Fran’s lodge.
CHAPTER 9
“Igot a message from the hospital asking if you were alright as you have taken a leave of absence,” Robbie told Fran.
“What did you say?”
“That you needed this time as you were going through personal stuff and you’d be back as soon as you could.”
“Thanks, that’s pretty much what I told him.”
“Did Cresswell explain to Uncle Berni everything that happened with him and Jacob?”
Frank and Robbie nodded. “He did. Cresswell said he went about things all wrong,” Frank said.
“That’s what Jacob said. He also said that a lot of the money came from his mother’s side of the family and had nothing to do with his father and that a lot of the furniture in the house were antiques passed down from his mother’s side of the family. Hopefully, I talked Jacob out of taking any money out of his father’s accounts, but who knows what he did in the end.”
“Tis a bad business. In shifter law, whatever is in the pack house and in the Alpha’s accounts automatically goes to the new Alpha unless restitution is called for,” Frank reminded them.
