Nade’s pov

My beast growled inside me knowing that there was no way out with all of them surrounding me. My cars twitched as the sound of the heavy paws hit the earth beneath them.

The rustle of leaves and twigs snapping free closer and from my peripheral vision the shadow of them as they move through the trees move closer. They found me faster than I thought they would. Getting a head start on the council didn’t hel

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ed to a halt as their shadows move closer and closer until I

ad see the glow of their predatory eyes. No point

ing away

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or fighting them when I am not only outnumbered ba enough to fight any of the council members on my own since the wolfsbane is still in my system.

One by one they emerged out of the darkness of the trees, and I held my ground and didn’t bow. I am an alpha wolf, I have dignity.

Each of the wolves smeared off their power as they snarled and shook their fur. At the forefront is one of the wolves I recognize. The one who always visits my father.

Peter.

than it had been at few months ago, his blue eyes icier than they had been too. “Xade,” his voice is firm, not as friendly as it had

of them, circled and closed in on me until there would be

He commanded. And though my beast didn’t like to be commanded. I

“I was protecting my-

for why I could call her without giving away what she really meant to me. I didn’t want the council to meddle in our business. Not when they had a reputation for making

“My best friend.”

and I saw him glance around him at the other council members before setting

me.

Peter a

rumble of power and coldness. If I had been any other wolf, I would be on my knees, bones buckling to kneel. “The weight of what you’ve done,

calm, although my claws bit into my palms.

by such reckless behavior.

I looked away. “Like I said, I had no choice. It was either let him

you’re attached to her,” his

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to have risked exposing our kind to

there and let him hurt. her!” I snapped, unable to keep the fury out of my voice this time. “If you saw how he

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