Turns out even werewolves have secrets they'd rather bleed out than tell.
"That's not good enough," Ronan said, his voice low and dangerous, the fear underneath it audible even through the anger. "You have a Viper number in your call history going back weeks, Killian. Weeks. During an active state of hostility between our packs. You don't get to hand me half an explanation when the whole pack is questioning whether you're a traitor."
Killian winced, though whether from the accusation or the physical pain of shifting in his hospital bed, I couldn't tell. "It's not that simple."
I watched the two brothers face off, struck by how rarely I'd seen genuine conflict between them before this — Killian's usual deference to Ronan's authority nowhere in evidence now, replaced by something more stu
