"How exactly did your protection detail end with her up a tree?" Alpha Sebastian asked, not bothering to question why we were here in the first place. His attention was fixed on me. Tang gave him an innocent look. "The dog came out of nowhere. They panicked. I turned around for one second, and suddenly they were climbing trees and jumping down riverbanks. I couldn't get them to come down." Alpha Sebastian's expression remained serious, but I had recovered enough of my senses to feel thoroughly mortified. I was clawing at the tree bark so hard I might have been carving a hole into it. And I could swear he was fighting back laughter. Yes, he was definitely laughing inside! Alpha Sebastian instructed one of the men who had joined him to take the dog inside and secure it in a kennel. Th

