POV: Elena
I felt the air in the carriage grow cold. I didn't blink. "Many men have silver in their gaze, Alpha. The world is wider than your borders. Their father was a man of the road. He is gone. That is all you need to know."
Cassian’s nostrils flared. He was scenting the air, hunting for a familiar pheromone, a hint of the 'Null' he had discarded. But I had prepared for this. I had spent the morning bathing myself and the twins in a decoction of Wolf-Bane and Numb-Weed. To his nose, we smelled like nothing but bitter herbs and clinical sterility.
"You have a sharp tongue for someone entering a den of wolves," Cassian murmured, his eyes dropping to the curve of my neck before snapping back to my masked face.
"Most people tremble when they cross the Silver Moon boundary."
"I am not
