(Aleksandr POV)
That was just… bullshit.
Not the way I wanted to come out of the monthly bear shifter meeting, but I did. I just had this intense dissatisfied feeling in the pit of my stomach. I got why Hudson and Aiden were so pissed off with Dimitri, and as their cousin, maybe I should have sided with them. That was probably the way I was supposed to behave because, of course, drug trafficking was totally wrong.
But I could also see Dimitri’s point of view, because what else would we do without the money he brought in? Twin Lakes was almost entirely funded by everything he did.
I sighed as I headed to Rovers Inn, desperately needing a drink after the evening’s events. I just wanted something strong to take the edge off.
“Hey there,” a friendly voice greeted me.
One I hadn’t been ex
