Alpha Kael's POV I had never been this disoriented before in my life. My thoughts were a tangled mess, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t shake her from my mind. That damn slave, Kaida. Why the hell was she still haunting me? Why wouldn’t she just let me be? It was maddening, the way she lingered in my head, refusing to fade into the past where she belonged. Maybe Soraya was right. Maybe we should have found her, made her pay for her crimes instead of just banishing her, sending her away from the pack. Perhaps if we had, she wouldn’t be crawling around in my brain, disrupting every waking moment. Criseda had done many things to test my patience, but today... today she had crossed a line. She could have done anything else, anything at all, but she had to go and ruin my b

