Knox ~
I observe and don't comment on Josie entering some kind of weapons vault in the basement of the alpha house. She selects her usual gun but I watch in horror as she empties the bullets and changes them to silver ones. "What are you doing?" I grip her arm firmly, her head whipping to mine as she holds the gun still in her hand.
"If it is a real threat..." She starts but I cut her off. No, the world could be ending but there would never be a reason to use silver bullets...not on our own kind.
"No...Does your Dad know you have these down here?" I can't help my tone be anything but horrified by what I am witnessing. Surely her parents would give her free range on these, or even let them be stored in their house. "Of course, how do you think I got them."
One by one she places each silver bullet within the gun magazine before loading it into the gun. She doesn't wince once from touching the silver bullets, no marks on her finger tips...not even a sign of holding silver. Which for our kind is one of the most lethal substances still around today that can kill us.
"How did you just do that?" I snatch her fingers into my hands, inspecting her soft skin for painful marks of burns.novelbin
"Do what?" She looks at me as if I have gone insane, that I'm the one acting weird.
"How did you touch them...get rid of them." I push the gun away, my voice demanding.
"Knox." She rolls her eyes at me which only winds me up even more. She doesn't understand their full danger, that having them here for security is the complete opposite of being safe.
"You don't need them with me around, I wouldn't let anything happen to you."
"I'm following protocol, what's gotten into you. Surely you train the alphas with silver bullets?" No, never. That has never been an option for me. Ever.
"Josie, you don't need them. I won't let you out of my sight." Whatever she was hiding from me, I couldn't deny this overwhelming need to protect her. Even the thought of her carrying silver bullets, even to use on others of our species terrifies me. What if she shoots in error, hits a pack member.
"This is what I am trained for." She places the gun's safety on, my eyes watching as she places it behind her. My level of anger only rising at her disobedience, of her lack of caution for her own safety and that of her family's pack.
"You don't need them." I seethe out through gritted teeth, my hand snaking up to grip at her throat.
"This is the Dark Phantom pack Knox, this is my family's land. I will do as I please." Her jaw tenses as my thumb trails across it.
"Not when it puts you in danger." I respond firmly, the thought of her getting hurt making me feel sick. If there really was a threat out there tonight it would take them seconds to disarm her and use the gun on her. She'd be dead in seconds, no one can survive silver bullets. I've seen it first hand.
"I'm not in danger, now remove your hands." She seethes out at me, her teeth biting down on her bottom lip. I could smell arousal emitting from her, but she was trying to fight it. If we weren't needed elsewhere I'd have her here, she was bloody tempting even when trying to look angry at me.
She pushes past me, closing the vault and moving up the stairs. Still ruminating with the notion of her carrying fucking silver bullets in the gun now stuffed in the back waistband, I follow her.