DRAVEN’S POV “Mr. Vale,” I pushed forward and let the rest of the crowd run behind me. The warriors of my pack soon assembled beside me, but we were nothing in number compared to the troops Mr. Vale had. “Why do you look surprised to see me? I promised you I'd be back,” he said, dropping from the motorbike he was on. Mr. Vale was accompanied by other bikers and thousands and thousands of foot soldiers. I turned to Ragner. We both had the same thought. I did not expect that Mr. Vale was this powerful. We knew we were expecting a war, but this was not one that we could take on, certainly not in the middle of the personal crisis I was going through. “Mr. Vale, if you can just stand down your guards, I'm pretty sure…” “I'm only going to say this once before there are too many casualties

