She nods. “Dane told him to stay where I could see him. He has done.”

I watch other Wolves stop to observe him. Abraxas doesn’t acknowledge them, like he is in his own little world. He moves with precision and ease, probably following training patterns that he had mastered over the years.

“I don’t like him.”

“You don’t like anyone.” she smirks at me and takes a sip of water from her bottle. “But I get what you mean. He’s strange. His movements, his words. How can someone know things like he does?”

“They don’t. It’s normally a result of research and watching, or he paid someone for information.”

“Hmm.”

“You think it’s something else.”

“I don’t know what to think.” She mutters and pulls her bottom lip between her teeth. “Dane wouldn’t have left him if he thought there was a problem.”

“Maybe he is performing his own test.”

Her big blue eyes turn to me as she nods in agreement. From what I had heard, Dane did like to test people and he had odd ways of doing it. It probably also means that Neah is not the only one watching this nutjob throw himself around fighting an invisible force.

I’m assuming he tested me at some point too. But I was here and he had chosen me as Beta so I must have passed.

Abraxas makes his way towards us.

Neah watches him with curiosity as he pulls a towel from his bag and begins wiping the sweat from his body.

“You train funny.” She mutters

“Training is training.” He cocks a brow, flashing his eyes in my direction. “Not all of us need to spar with someone to test our strengths and I definitely don’t need to beat the shit out of a bag.”

This guys obnoxious attitude was on another level and I was more than ready to put my fist through his face.

“No, you just take the pussy’s way out and stick a gun in their face.”

He smirks at me, a dark glint in his eyes. “You have no fucking idea, Rogue.”

I get up, growling. “Call me a fucking Rogue one more time!”

His smirk turns into a grin. A laugh rumbles from inside of him and he turns away from me.

“Fucking prick!” I snarl

The dickhead stops, keeping his back to me. He turns his face a little over his shoulder, not quite looking at me, yet enough to show that he is challenging me.

Neah grabs my ankle. “STOP!”

It was an order. Something that I couldn’t refuse. If I wasn’t annoyed, I would be impressed that she had been able to do it.

“I’m not a Rogue, Neah. I swear on my life that I do not want to go back to that way of living.”

“I know that.”

“Then let me smash his face in.”

“No.”

“Do you believe the shit he spouts?”

“I didn’t say that.” She murmurs with a frown.

I wasn’t sure how to respond. Curiosity wasn’t a bad thing, or was it that he wanted Blair dead too? Either way, I decide to stay with her until Dane comes back.

The guy trains like no other. He is incredibly quick and moves with perfection, better than I had seen here in the pack.

I could see Dane heading back our way with the twins and Dottie. She’s skipping along next to him, carrying that bear from the hotel when she stops dead to stare at Abraxas. I watch her arm coil around Dane’s leg as she hides herself behind him.

When I look at Abraxas, he has stopped too and is staring at my girl. I hurry over to them and Dottie practically claws herself up into my arms. Her arms loop around my neck as she hides her face against me.

She’s not crying and she’s not scared but her heart pounds like crazy against her chest. “Who is he Daddy?” she whispers

“You don’t need to worry.”

I start moving towards the house to get her inside only to find Abraxas catching up with us. “Dorothy?” He mutters

I didn’t care how he knew her name but he was not hurting a hair on her head. “Stay away from my kid!” I growl, pulling her away.

“Your kid?”

“Yes. Stay the hell away.”

“She’s not yours. She’s mine.”