GARRETT POV For a moment I honestly thought I had misheard. Because the alternative was that Amaranta’s father had just calmly announced that the smug i***t leaning against the wall had once been promised my mate, and that was the kind of statement that made wolves do extremely unreasonable things. Surely Jax had to be messing with my head, twisting the words around just enough to get the green light and finally sink his teeth into little weenie’s ass. Turned out my wolf was innocent. For now. Which was impressive, considering we had already been playing very nice with Amaranta’s family, way nicer than they deserved after dropping that little bombshell in the middle of the room like it was a casual piece of family trivia. Maybe coming here had been a mistake. Maybe the whole let’s

