202.  A Father's Will

~ RIG ~

I stared at Stephen and waited, but his foot was jiggling and he just stared back.

“So, that’s it?” I asked. “He told you what you had to do, and you just… did it?”

My brother’s jaw went tight. “We agreed on some terms—which boiled down to the fact that I could never reach out to any wolf, ever. And that if I ever did challenge him, he’d deny any knowledge and then kill me himself. And Harmony, too. If I left him alone, she was safe.”

“That’s such bullshit, Stephen. You really think if he wanted her dead, he would have hesitated?”

Stephen frowned. “Of course he would—I was in line to inherit. If he killed my mate, it wo