CHAPTER NINE
DRAVEN
The room stayed quiet long after Mirror finished speaking. Nobody rushed to fill the silence and nobody argued.
That alone told me how bad things had become.
Mirror wasn't the kind of man who threw ideas into the air just to see which one landed. If he opened his mouth during church, it was because he'd already spent ten steps thinking ahead of everyone else.
I leaned back in my chair and rubbed a hand across my face.
"Garrick..." The name felt heavy.
Mirror had a point.
Garrick Ashbourne was probably the only Alpha I'd trust with my back, and that wasn't something I admitted often. We were childhood friends and got separated because of his so-called wolf traits. He couldn't be with us, he said he had some responsibility.
Some friendships didn't make sense….Our
