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He lifted her and carried her to the bed.  Jordan curled his body
behind her and held her tight.  If he didn’t she would bolt.  “Tell me.”  He
murmured against her ear.  Lettie shuddered.
    “I heard a noise
and I went to guard the store.  I thought it was burglars and since I live over
a human owned business, I assumed they would be human.  I went down the diaper
aisle and there were three of them.”  She sniffled.  “They followed me and I
didn’t know where I was going but I just wanted to get away.  I knew they were
stronger, they were all males.  When I got to the back, there were three more. 
They made me shift and then they…”  Lettie started to sob again.  “I tried to bite
the leader and that was when they all started biting me.  The leader tore a
chunk out of my breast.”  Jordan’s eyes were moist but he stayed strong for
her.  “The leader raped me first, he’s was their alpha and he stuck his filthy
cock into me, my mouth, my ass, my…”  The sob tore from her throat.  Jordan
tightened his arms around her and she fought him.  Lettie was having trouble
holding her form.  All she knew was that her wolf needed to get away, to run
until she couldn’t remember.  “If you hadn’t left me, if you hadn’t rejected
me, if you didn’t need to be the alpha, none of it would’ve happened Jordan!” 
Lettie sprung across the room.  He’d let her get up feeling her anxiety.
    “Lettie.”  Jordan
tried to calm her with his soft soothing voice.
    “No!”  She
snarled.  “Then you did the same thing when I was asleep.  You’re no better
than they were!”  She screeched at him.
    “That’s not so
Lettie, you wanted that.”  He was getting closer to her and when he got close
enough he would hold her until she was reasonable again.
    “I guess I wanted
to be raped and torn apart too.  I must have since I live alone over a grocery
store.  Any man could take advantage, isn’t that right Jordan?”  She hissed.  “It’s
what you said.”  Lettie shifted and bolted for the door.  Jordan shifted and
followed but Lettie was like a streak once she was outside.  The gravel flew up
behind her and he knew that it was best to let her get it out of her system.
    Hours later, she
returned.  Jordan sat on the porch waiting for her.  She came up the steps
still in her wolf form and went inside.  Jordan followed her until she shut the
bedroom door in his face.  He heard the lock click.  Jordan leaned his head on
the door listening.  She was crying again.  This was going to rip his heart
from his chest.  Her bleak desperation was more than he could handle.  He
needed to soothe her, to hold her and to make her understand.  Jordan went to
the kitchen and made her lunch.  He prepared steak and grilled vegetables then
placed them on a tray.  He knocked softly on the bedroom door but she wouldn’t
answer.  “I have food for you.  It’s out here by the door Lettie, please eat, I
don’t want you to get sick again.  I’m going to my office if you need me.” 
Jordan called through the door then walked away.  He needed to get ready for
the pack meeting later.  He would have to find a way to sort this out.  He did
not intend to give up alpha yet, he’d had the position for ten days.  Ten days would
have to be the shortest term any wolf in history had ever served.  She had to
understand that it was for her.  It was all for her.
    ***
    “Summerville pack,
can I have your attention please?”  Jordan stood at the front of the basement
room looking out at fifty sets of eyes but only one set mattered.  The set in
the back meant more to him than anyone else in this room.  Why did she always
sit back there alone?  She should be up front with him.  “I’ve been looking
over Frank’s papers and I have to convey some disturbing news.”  There were
murmurs but he pushed on.  “Frank left the pack in terrible shape financially. 
There is no