“I never meant for any of this to happen,” Katherine sighed. “Dane and I…we were intensely in love. He was so devoted to me. I think it bothered him, on some level, that I couldn’t feel the wolf bond. Like maybe he feared I didn’t feel the same way he did, but I was in love with the man. I left my coven to be with him. Surrounded by a bloody pack of wolves.” A pack. I whipped my head around. “Your alpha knew what she was.” “But on some level, I think he always doubted me. You know that feeling well, don’t you Alpha? How the null your wolf chose didn’t feel the mating bond?” “Which pack did you belong to?” I asked. Katherine looked over my shoulder at Kiana. “When the Crone demanded that I kill her, I’d never felt so terrified in my life. What kind of vision could she have seen to deman

