He grinned and motioned for me to follow him, both of us stepping beside each other. "There's only about half a dozen of them, so it's no big threat," he said confidently.
We headed out of the boundary, that's how close Riley had gotten. My heart thumped loudly in my chest at the thought of how close she had gotten to getting off my pack lands. No sooner had we made it into neutral territory than we were entering a clearing where the women themselves were camping. At the sight of us, the women froze, all of them looking thin and starved, malnourished and weak, their bodies tense as they studied us and debated whether it was worth shifting and fighting to get away.
Callum held up a hand "We mean you no harm" he said quietly "we came to see for ourselves what your purpose was in being he
