PHOENIX Word had traveled of how Genevieve had restrained Candace before anyone could blink and I was getting several requests a day from both villagers and members of the Guard Unit who wanted to learn. Hell, I wanted to learn. So often in war, we inadvertently killed those we wanted to glean information from because they wouldn’t stop fighting and we either snapped their necks, used silver or injected wolfsbane, which often rendered them useless. I hadn’t yet taken my mate on a tour of the barracks nor had I shown her the retreat yet. I could fix that in one little getaway. Gen fit into my life and the pack better than I could have imagined. In addition to learning how to keep the books, she’d been pouring over old archives with Anne and Elder Brown, making wedding plans with my

