AXEL
I stood not far from the packhouse, smoke slipping from my lips as I watched.
Darwin, Kendrick and the rest of the council were gathered, heads bent together like cowards like they were plotting in secret. Well they are, as long as I am not then they are.
I didn’t bother straining to hear them. Whatever they whispered about, I would find out soon enough. It always amused me how they held meetings in my pack without my consent, as though I were already dethroned and have no right to what was mine.
Another puff of smoke spread into the night air.
“Alpha,” Simone murmured at my side. “Do you really mean it, telling her to leave the mansion?”
His gaze burned into me, searching for an answer, but I didn’t care what he thought but it did not glance his way.
“Why are you the one wor
