Campbell sighed in defeat as he let Alexander go, revealing he didn’t want to admit that his dormant carnal desires had awakened prematurely due to Emily. He was embarrassed to acknowledge this, as the young woman was foreign, an "intruder," and human, and to make matters worse, she had defeated him in a chess game that was anything but ordinary to the small pack.
Typically, an alpha werewolf likes to stay a step ahead, winning in all aspects and being the "alpha" in every sense. This meant having superior power and greater respect than anyone else. Furthermore, the wolf king despised losing; he had faced many situations recently where he lost everything, damaging his pride repeatedly.
Thus, any defeat, no matter how small, affected him more than it should. Meanwhile, in Emily's room, sh
