Chapter 134

“Liam?” Leah glances at me and I usher

her to the side. “We’ll take a table back in

the main room,” I tell Antoine.

I spin Leah around and get her on the

other side of the curtain.

“What is my brother doing here?”

“Dining,” I reply easily. “What else?”

We’re led back to a private alcove and I pull out my phone and text for my security detail to come in.

“A team will be joining us, Antoine. Please position them appropriately.”

“Of course, sir. Right away, sir.”

We sit and take the menus he extends to

us.

A bevy of waiters and bussers pour drinks and place a platter of artisan

breads on the table. Leah reads her

menu and I’m glad that she isn’t too put off by the fact that her brother is in the

same exclusive restaurant.

I wouldn’t think much of it either.

Except I know who he is eating with. And

it’s not Tobin. Or some other Council

member.

Their backs were to us, but I recognized

the tattoos on their necks. These are Old

Country Wolves. One from an Arctic pack that traces its line to the origins of our

kind. Two from a Eurasian pack that’s

anchored in Belarus.

The closest equivalent to these merciless

wolves is the mafia.

Council. They operate outside of it. They don’t give a

They’re weapons dealers.

Drug traffickers.

entire regions and the economics

countries.

is Liam doing, taking a meeting with

can’t write this off as

he just runs in some

is too high up.

a sitdown with Michail or

you’re brokering

million. They don’t

with any of the small

third wolf, Dorian, I don’t

Gibraltar for twenty

him to

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crossed paths with these

time or two.

a bu nch of hotheads.

Michails’ goons a

not too long ago.

sure his

regenerated.

Ryker, he’s a

fact that her brother is

order a 2018

my men take up position directly outside our little room, I

my own, no problem.

But Leah is vulnerable.

when she became Alpha

shockwaves through

don’t think most wolves

ki lling her. The power she holds is a he ll

Even for me.

up and smiles. “This

nice, Aaron.”

on a

care about the

just want to get her back to

like

her body

what to

whispers.

don’t have to decide. It’s a tasting menu. They’re going to

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