Chapter 356

• He pours himself some scotch, barely looking at me as he asks, “Is it what you want?”
• “I want the mating pact between Ashton Daniels and I dissolved. I want it dissolved or else—” Or else, what? I’ll leave the pack forever? They can’t force me to stay, but the thought of trying to live in the human world on my own, without my father’s financial support, terrifies me.
• “Never resort to ultimatums, Bailey,” he says calmly. “It puts you in a weak position and ends a negotiation.”