For a long moment I could only stare at my brother, wondering exactly how long he had been harboring those kinds of thoughts towards me. Kain was easygoing, and one of my most loyal supporters. So to hear him so blatantly criticize my leadership was beyond shocking, and frankly, it was a stern wake up I didn’t know I needed.
I couldn’t the fact that he was right. I had abandoned my pack. When Stephanie and Curt had been killed in that same pack house, it had felt like a part of me had been killed alongside with them as well. I wanted nothing to do with the Crescent Moon Pack, wanted nothing to do with being their alpha. I’d locked myself away from them for years, ignoring the guilt gnawing at my chest, and the acute awareness that I’d left a pack as large as they were without any kind of
