Ethan's POV It wasn't the first time someone kidn*pped my brother, and hearing the dirty war tactics that not a few Alphas or Lunas resorted to, coming from Bruma's mouth, couldn't help but shock me, as well as surprise me in a very negative sense. I wouldn't have expected that the elderly Luna, a centennial one, would speak so openly about what she had once done to free herself from her enemies. Those were vile and dirty tactics, perhaps effective, but they always found a way to come back to haunt those who used them. I trusted, in that moment in the car, that this woman had already moved past that and had no intention of infecting Sussan with the idea of resorting to something so low. As a brother, I had experienced k********g, and it wasn't a sensation I wished on anyone, not even my

