Slade He was outside the packhouse waiting with his unit. Dariah and Clay had come down here for it. He’d not seen any interaction with Clay and that boy now walked over there and stared down at Roman, then just put a hard kick to the man's ribs, and they all heard Roman cry out in pain and his ribs break. Clay had used his Alpha strength, it seemed. Then he hunkered down in front of him. “You’re despicable, but just to let you know, Vaness and I have a son, he’s two, and I stalled constantly, had them stall all the time, so you would never be able to hurt her, hurt my son. I didn’t know the extent of what you got up to, but I was not stupid, I saw what Slade saw, the deceit of who you were, just like Dariah did, and I too, just played along, like she did, until Slade came home. “I took

