To say that the pack was shocked was an understatement.
Some were angry, some frustrated. I could feel their lack of trust in me. Alpha Xavier wouldn’t have allowed anyone to get within twenty-five miles of our borders without warriors tracking their every move and reporting back to him.
It was one more thing that I could add to my list of failures as their Alpha.
Personally, I thought what Xavier had done was overkill. Not many were willing to attempt attacking the largest, strongest pack in America. Even the rogues, who operated by their own rules, knew better.
Now that I was in charge, I loosened our defense on the borders, assuming that we wouldn’t need to extend our warriors outside of the territory lines.
I admit that I was wrong. It took Oliver stationing men outside
