Acceptance, and a new discovery!

Audrey's POV

I had felt slightly downcast when Kendrick informed me that the pack was under attack as it made the fact that the people didn't see me as their leader so obvious.

I was the one who the guards should have alerted first. I ought to be leading the pack to defeat the enemy but no one deemed it fitting to tell me what was happening.

I was pretty sure that no one even remembered I existed until Kendrick realized and I was just as certain that he was the one to call me out because everyone else didn't want to approach me. Kendrick probably even only came to wake me up because he wanted my help in battling the enemy and not because he saw me as the leader.

Bearing those painful thoughts in mind, I came out of my room with Kendrick and he started leading me through the palace. I wanted to complain that his pace was too slow but didn't want to seem controlling in a situation like this.

However, as if reading my mind, he began to increase the pace of his movements and as