“Will do.” Kelly opened the door and looked back at him. “Good luck at your meeting thing.”
“Thanks.” He watched her walk along the corridor to the stairwell, then closed the door.
Tim’s soft footfalls on the wooden floor were the only indication he was approaching. Seb smiled as Tim reached him and wrapped his arms around him.
“You about ready?”
“I still don’t know why I need to be there.” Despite being a shifter now, Seb didn’t feel like a real part of the pack. Maybe it would take time to adjust.
Tim tightened his arms around him and buried his nose in the crook of Seb’s neck. “It was you they attacked, Seb. Don’t you want to see Newell’s face when Cam accuses him?”
Honestly? No.Sitting in a room with two alphas and all their betas wasn’t somewhere Seb wanted to be, especially if things started to get heated. “Explain it to me again, because I’m still a little confused about what Cam’s going to accuse him of, exactly.”
Shifter politics were so weird and complicated. Seb might have zoned out the first time Tim tried to tell him what had happened.
“Really?
“Yes, really.”
Tim’s exasperated breath washed over the back of Seb’s neck, making him shiver. “Listen this time, then, okay?”
“I’m all ears.”
“You remember the rogue shifter Alec captured?”
Seb snorted—as if he was going to forgethimin a hurry. “Yes, I vaguely recall him,” he snarked.
Tim gave him a squeeze in retaliation. “Well, according to him, at least some of the Primrose Hill pack were aware of what they were doing, and not only actively encouraged it, but aided and abetted the rogues. He says Newell was certainly aware, and he had contact with Wes and a couple of others, though he doesn’t know their names.”
“And everyone believes him?”
Tim grimaced, and Seb wasn’t sure he wanted to know any more. “I don’t think he was in a position to lie. And besides, Cam offered to put in a good word for him with the alpha council, so maybe they’ll find him a pack outside the city instead of sentencing him to imprisonment or death.” He tilted Seb’s chin so their eyes met. “How do you feel about that?”
“About what? That Cam’s trying to helping him stay alive?”
“Yes. He was part of the group that tried to kill you and kidnapped your sister. You have every right to want him dead.”
Seb closed his eyes and let the memories of that night fill his mind. Yes, he’d been scared stiff for his sister, and being attacked by a shifter was no fun. Maybe, in the heat of the moment, he’d have thought differently, but this was after the fact, and both he and Kelly were fine.Better than fine.“I don’t want anyone to die on my account.”
Tim’s lips caressed the side of his neck, and Seb instinctively knew which spot he was kissing.
“Okay.”
Tim licked at the bite mark and Seb groaned, leaning back and letting him take most of his weight.
Seb’s cock hardened in his jeans as Tim kissed along his throat and up under his ear. “Do we have to go right this second? Surely we can—”
“No.” Tim laughed and stepped back, catching him by the shoulders when he stumbled. “I can’t make two alphas and their betas wait for me because I was too busy having sex.”
“And tell me again why you have to go at all?”
“Because I’m involved. As are Nathan and Jared. They’ll both be there.”
Seb reached down and palmed his hard-on, now straining against his jeans. God, he’d been so horny since the full moon. Tim said it was normal and would pass, but—
He met Tim’s gaze, then let out a frustrated sigh. “Why don’t you feel like this? Why is just me?”
Tim moved fast, pinning him against the wall; the answering hardness in his jeans was easy to feel. “Are you kidding me?” He put his head on Seb’s shoulder and breathed in deep. “I want you so bad right now, I’m seriously debating pissing off my alpha and risking possible punishment.”
