POV: Zain Packs have become a joke, and my encounter with the King has only served to confirm it. Nowadays, all werewolf pups are promoted to pack warriors for doing as much as killing a wandering squirrel, then they walk around flaunting their title just in the hopes of banging someone that night. It makes me sick just thinking about it. Even the Lycan King himself seems to be in a rougher shape than even he would be willing to admit. I can only assume that his age is catching up to him. After all, no wolf, no matter his lineage or rank, is immune to the passing of time. If Timber, my wolf, had truly wished to hurt him, he could have inflicted much more damage than he already did. But how could we hurt our mate’s kin? I must admit that I had a suspicion about it when we first kidn*

