Twenty Years before...
Orion P.O.V
"Declan, thank you for showing up on such short notice." I greeted my old friend at the door of the small room. His hazel eyes roamed over my face inquisitively before passing through the door. "I only hope that this matter is as important as you made me believe it to be, or Mara will have me sleeping in the barracks with the guards for the next month."
"Tell me, when you mated, did you also chop off your balls?" Trace spoke up from where he was seated next to his twin brother, Kale. Kale gave him a sharp glare before elbowing him in the side for his taunt. Trace and Declan had a relationship built on their mutual hatred for each other, but they were both damn good leaders and men. I closed the door and turned to the group, ignoring the tension, "I
