Nathan POV
I left my meeting with the Royal Alpha, determined to track Claire down.
After meeting up with the security detail, I immediately headed west through the Royal pack territory, toward the border.
And what I found really did feel like a war zone.
Even at this distance from the border there were villages and a few small towns that had been completely destroyed. Buildings lay in ruin, people’s belongings were scattered everywhere, clearly abandoned when they were forced to flee.
With every mile we covered there was some fresh sign of fighting, of lives ruined. Lives taken.
I mindlinked with Evan, who had landed in a nearby field. Grateful all over again that my Beta had his pilot’s license, I met up with Evan and the soldiers he brought with him.
“Sir,” he said as the soldie
