Aric’s POV- We convened at the border crossing. Alec, my father, Harlow, and most of our warriors were suiting up to literally storm the castle. We could only hope we weren’t too late. Alec was pacing furiously- but we had to be organized about this. We knew almost nothing of what we were walking into, but we did know they would be anticipating us. I hated going in blind, but we didn’t have a lot of options. We had a massive stock of stake weapons that I had initiated preparations of as soon as we began to suspect the vampires. Guns that fired wood stakes, and reinforced wooden stake swords. Our best weapon was our powerful and venomous bite, but I wanted to be prepared as much as possible. Alec would be phased and leading the wolf form warriors while I would lead the human form stake-

