Rowan gave me a room and an access card.
"If you want to stay, register with the pack. If you want to leave, every checkpoint in White Ridge has orders to let you through."
Our entire agreement fit on a single page. White Ridge would protect everyone who had come with me and stay out of Blackwood while the pack was in turmoil.
As for the soldiers at the six outposts, whether they continued following Adrian was entirely their choice.
I looked at the blank space waiting for my signature.
"Aren't you worried I'll take everything you're offering and go straight back to Blackwood?"
"I am," Rowan said. "But I'm more worried that if I leave you nowhere else to go, you'll start thinking I'm your only option."
The backlash from the wolfsbane hit me that night.
I half-shifted in the bathroom
