Where are you, Ben? Alyna asked herself while surveying the area that was scattered with the dead bodies of Nathan’s office staff and a handful of Amaraq fighters who used to work with Ben. She didn’t mind a good fight, although she knew her condition didn’t allow it, but what made her blood boil now was that a coward had taken her friend to lure her out. Where are you, Ben?WShe wasn’t an alpha of any kind. She didn’t see herself that way even though she had officially claimed the leadership of Amaraq. Everybody knew she was a loner. So how did this creature know she considered Ben a friend? Fear clawed at her. The South. Something had happened in the South, and the reason Ben had come back here was because he had informed someone that they were friends. He had come back for her. Damn

