Chapter 25

“Now then-” Alpha Cunningham turned back to the rest of the table, “Any more questions?” He smirked.

And like a beautiful dance, I witnessed Carter and the rest of the high rankers navigate through a minefield of tense negotiations.

Wolf politics were interesting, if only for the fact that words had to be carefully crafted in every sentence so as not to offend any of the highly emotional and dangerous wolves. However, if a wolf needed to show their strength, they purposely tried to make the other uncomfortable.

For instance, as questions were fielded about the legitimacy of the claims of wolf children being taken, Alpha Cunningham got swept up in a stare-off with the alpha who skeptically denied the validity of them earlier. The two refused to look away as it showed weakness and it took each of their luna’s to pull them away from nearly turning to a wolf at the dinner table and challenging each other.

“How can you expect us to believe that they’re taken?” The same skeptical alpha gro