Anna wasn't expecting that from him. Nor the scents that clung to the air and him. She knew him to be gruff, but not a bad man. Just a man who'd seen hard days and long nights. The fact his current mix of scents made her nose twitch didn't make her happy. She knew those emotions.
She'd survived those emotions. She'd been on the receiving end of so much abuse she didn't even need him to answer her. She recognized it and the look in his eye. He'd done something he wasn't proud of. Not that it made Anna any less furious.
Because she didn't trust many here. After the Nogitsune had broken her, she laid her trust in Chris, and Tristan and Scorpius. It was an incredibly short list. The fact he'd landed himself on the wrong side made her wolf angry. She had trusted him.
The fact he didn't fight her actually made her a little sad. He didn't say he hadn't done anything wrong. She brought him nose to nose with her, blue eyes angry and narrowed. "What. Did. You. Do." She was conflicted.
She wanted to put him at ease, and truly she wasn't capable of stopping that ability, but she couldn't just stand there either. She protected those she thought of as family. She'd fight for any of them on that very short list. But she didn't know what to do, because the scent of hurt from Scorpius lingered, the scent of blood from someone else wasn't just in the air. It was on the man she held in the air.
The anger faded in her eyes, replaced with disappointment and hurt. Good job, Chris.