#Chapter 19 In Hot Water

I pulled my shoulders back and lifted my chin defiantly. “I wasn’t aware that I needed your permission to do interviews,” I said. “You know how I feel about the media,” Noah replied through gritted teeth. “Why don’t you enlighten me once again?” Noah breathed in deeply through his nostrils in an effort to remain calm. “For the Alpha family, maintaining distance from the media, especially tabloids, is the best approach. They’re nothing but boring gossip mills anyway.” I stood up and held myself at my full height, trying to appear bigger and braver than I actually was. “Those ‘boring gossip mills’ are what the people really care about,” I countered. “That’s where they get their impressions of us, and that’s where they’re going to look to in order to see what kinds of Alphas we are. Why else would they be covering every event that we attend?” Noah opened his mouth as though to protest but quickly snapped it shut. He had no good retort for that. “Besides, it’s not my fault that I