It hurt so much to say Danshak's name that she winced when she said it. How was she going to continue existing without him? How do people recover after losing their soulmate?
"He killed my husband too," said Cheyenne, as if she'd heard Erin's mental question.
"My husband was a fur merchant and I had traveled with him to a small settlement near Pentuck to trade. On our way back to Vomani, we met Nikjin. We had heard of him before and we knew him to be the estranged brother of Alpha King of werewolves.
"We humans never concern ourselves with werewolf matters, so when he told my husband to join his army, he refused, and right there before my eyes, he killed him. I watched the love of my life die for simply refusing to be a puppet in Nikjin's hands."
"And then he brought you here
