CEDAR BLAKE “The council demands your presence, Cedar. You're now allowed entry into our pack. There is a new development which concerns your parents' execution. And you must come with me now! They're waiting.” Icarus repeated in a voice thick with urgency. “Why do they want to see me all of a sudden? Am I no longer an unwanted servant that would infect the land if I am not banished, or better still, buried alive?” I threw his words at his face. He had been the one person who hated me so much that he could say anything wrong about me to the twin alphas just to get me punished. “I have not come here to banter words with you. I was sent by the council elders and I will gladly tell them that you refused to see them if that's what you want.” He said, his eyes trained on the man behind me

