“I almost didn’t get there in time. Another five seconds and he would have—” He can’t finish the sentence.
I cup his face with both hands and his eyes close like the touch causes him physical pain. “But you did get there, I’m alive because of you. Who is Victor? The man said the name. Tell your Alpha.” I repeat the words. “He called you my Alpha.”
“Because that’s what I am.” Rhys stops pacing.
“You’re like a king?”
“More like a warlord.” He laughs but there’s no humor in it. “I took the position five years ago, I’ve spent every day since then defending our territory from other packs who want what we have.”
“And Viktor is one of those other packs?”
“Viktor is the Alpha of the Cascade Pack, we share a border to the east, three years ago his pack started encroaching on our land, taking
