Peter was sitting in one of the large leather chairs that faced the couch I had originally been sitting on. Everyone has taken up their places and so I sat down on the couch. He looked up at me.“Good to see you guys. It’s been a while.”Lenard chortled. “Well, next time, maybe don’t make it so dramatic?”Peter smiled and nodded. “We’ll see. Honestly, I felt lucky just getting out of the damn pack. I’ve seen some angry Alphas before but Goddess…” He shook his head. “I’ve never really been afraid of Alpha Cross before. Yes, he rules his pack out of fear but it’s mostly the past things he’s done. Never current, not until now. Fuck. Even Valois told me to get the fuck out of there.”My eyes widened and I leaned in. “What happened?”Taking a deep breath, Peter leaned forward and rubbed his mouth with his hand. “It started out as a routine Alpha meeting. I met with a few other Alphas, managed to speak about some minor treaties and conveniences that would benefit us as allies. Everything se

Cursing, I slammed my fists down onto the desk. To hurt your own children. Trap them and then try and destroy them. It was unheard of in a family, even human. But a wolf? We were pack animals. Our pack was our family but then our blood? That was a sacred bond. That being broken could break a wolf.“It’s a wonder she didn’t run away sooner.” Sam mumbled, just about as disturbed as I was.“According to my friend, her and her brother planned on leaving next year, when their eldest brother took over. The treaty they signed forced their hand in moving quicker to get her free. Otherwise…” Mom’s words trailed off. Her eyes were haunted by her past and tears welled up again.Sighing, I ran my hands through my hair. “So, what now? What’s the plan?”“I’d…I’d like to formally request authorization for them to come over for dinner.” My mom swallowed her tears and looked

Slamming my truck door shut, I waved at a couple of the guys who were working on the remodel of the meeting house. With how far the pack house was from the main city, it was hard for people to take the trip. It was even longer from the smaller towns on the outside edges of my territory. The city was more central to the area and everyone could at least manage that trip. Originally, the building had been an old auditorium for the school but we long since converted the school into apartments and built an entirely brand new school a little further outside. We’d been doing a bit of updating since the city itself dated back to the 1800’s. “Salvador! Lovely to see you.” I held out my hand to one the man behind all the construction. Salvador used to be part of the warriors who guarded during my father’s time as Alpha. His size alone was enough to usually deter anyway from picking a fight with him, but the scar that ran down his face made him look more menacing than he was. In his so-called r

Sighing, I was opening my truck door to head out when August caught me.“Alpha! Wait!”I stopped and leaned up against the bed of my truck. “What’s up?”“I just…I wanted to thank you. Mom was kind of freaking out there for a second and I’m pretty sure she was going to go down swinging. They were talking like they would shut down the restaurant and…”“Auggie, it’s not a big deal. Sometimes you can talk things though. Otherwise, if you can’t, it doesn’t always need to end in a fist fight.” I looked him directly in the eyes. “Like Chase and the other guys.”His face went beat red. “You know…”“Auggie, I’m Alpha. There is very little that goes on in this pack that I don’t know about.”“They are bullies.”“I know.”“I just wanted to be able to help out

*** Skylar’s POV *** ‘You don’t have to do it. You could just let them be.’ ‘I could, but then I would never know, or never be able to help if I could.’ Raine scoffed. ‘You’re a fugitive. You think you’re in any position to be helping someone?’ ‘She’s also a fugitive. From the same pack too. Chill. We’ll just ask. It’s not a big deal.’ I shoved her back, not happy about a lecture this early in the morning. I’d put the top up the night before because it was drizzling a little but now the sun was out and it felt good to have the top off again. I was cycling through CDs and I was at CD number 16 when I got off the highway near the Red River pack. They weren’t small by any means but they also weren’t as large as Silver Mountain. Silver Mountain pack was more of a defensible position with the mountains and those were actually part of the territory. Pulling out my map that was in my bag, I flipped it open to show where the road was verses the territory line. I didn’t want to have them