Liam was a man of his word, at least where his cruelty was concerned.
For two weeks he turned the full weight of Sunfang Pack against Shadowfang. Alliances we had been about to sign died on the table. Trade routes we had spent months negotiating were quietly closed. He courted other packs in dark backrooms and seeded each one with a different story about me.
She used Liam to get up, one rumor went. Now she's used him up and traded across to a richer, weaker man. She covets Kael's coffers, no different from a beggar choosing a kinder doorway. A girl who climbs is always a girl who climbs.
When I walked through the markets, voices dropped behind me. Eyes followed. I let it slide off. None of them had earned the right to wound me.
But Kael could not let it stand.
He called a full pack as
