Chapter 259

Duke's temple throbbed at the drunken, slurred word.

"Dick."

The sound made his wolf bristle. With a growl curling low in his throat, he seized Thalia's wrist and pinned her to the cold tile wall. His eyes burned gold, the mate-bond thrumming between them like a live wire.

His Adam's apple shifted twice before he ground out, each word edged in Beta authority.

"Not Dick. Duke."

Thalia scowled at th