“Yeah I did. Because you’re not my alpha. Neither of you are. Scott is my alpha so why exactly did you do this without his say so? He is the only alpha in town and outranks both of you when it comes to decisions and when he find out what you’ve been doing to this girl, he’s going to get seriously pissed off. We need to let her go. She hasn’t done anything wrong. Notice how I used the word she and not it. God you’re such an asshole, Peter.”
“Don’t,” Summer whispered. “I’m not worth this, don’t.”
Peter just lifted an eyebrow. “Scott’s as bad as you are when it comes to trust.”
Derek walked over to the cage, looking down at Summer cowering at the back. He said, with an odd stillness, “Sometimes you have to do things to protect the pack.” He looked at Erica. “One fox on the loose was bad enough. We need to make sure there isn’t another one.”
“Are you serious right now, Derek? I expect this kind of behaviour from him but you? You’re supposed to have morals. Can’t you see how wrong it is to keep her here? She is an innocent girl. Why did you think she might be a nogitsune anyway? What overwhelming evidence did you have to justify locking up a teenage girl?” With every question she grew increasingly irritated and her expression darkened. This was wrong and Derek had to know that.
Derek merely put on that expression that meant he didn’t like what he had to do, but he was going to do it anyway because he was so convinced he /had/ to do it. “It feeds off pain and chaos,” Peter interposed. “Feeds. I saw her feeding, Erica.”
Instantly Summer protested. “I wasn’t!”