Chapter 31 - Loyalty Tested

In the heart of the Amazonian Rainforest, the fires of conspiracy burn bright. Charmaine has ingratiated herself with the Hydra Pack, using her charm and cunning to weave a web of deceit that even Alpha Cortis cannot entirely unravel. She knows that the only way to secure her place in his ranks is to prove her worth, to show that she is not just a traitor but a valuable ally.

Cortis watches her with a wary eye, his trust hard to earn and even harder to keep. He knows that she is dangerous, a viper in wolf’s clothing, but that would make them both kin since he is the Black Mamba, more dangerous even than a viper. They’ve have something in common after all, he also knows that she is his best chance he’s got to bring down Alpha Wilson and claim Clovis City for himself.

“Charmaine,” he calls to her few days after she’d arrived the Mamba’s den, his voice echoing through the stone halls of his stronghold.

She appears almost immediately, her eyes gleaming with a mixture of fear and anticipat