Kael’s POV "I'm an Alpha with fifty armed men in my house," I growled. I let my own power leak out a little. My eyes flashed gold. "I'm not afraid. I'm angry. You're insulting my pack. You're calling us traitors based on the smell of a dusty room and a small tremor." "If you're so innocent, then you won't mind if I look," Valerius said. "You've already looked," I said. "Your men are everywhere." "They haven't looked at the people," he said. He turned away from me and looked at the crowd of warriors standing at the edges of the hall. "I want to see everyone. I want to see every servant. I want to see every wolf who calls this place home." "That's enough," I said, stepping in his way. "I won't have my people poked and prodded like animals. They've done nothing wrong." "If they've done

