Chapter Forty Six

Kavan

As I paced back and forth in the meeting room, my mind was fraught with thoughts concerning the impending meeting with the council. I knew they were going to criticise me relentlessly for leaving the pack without informing them first. But what else could I have done?

The situation demanded urgency, and I had to act swiftly. Also, I knew very well that if I had told them I wanted to visit the Silver Dawn pack, they would have never agreed, and I'd still have had to leave on my own without informing them.

Regardless of anything, I still couldn't shake off the feeling that they were plotting something against me. I have always been aware that they didn't like me as their King because they, like many others, believed that my insistence on changing certain things was an act of disrespect.

They wanted a King they could easily control to do their bidding, and they had thought I'd be like that because I was young, but when they realised that I had my own doctrines, they turned agai