I fought with everything I had to keep myself from kissing Liam right then. Gods. This was what a true mate felt like.
"If seeing him is going to upset you, I can throw him out of the pack right now." Liam's voice came out rough.
"No. I think we should see him. He is technically the alpha of a small territory now, after all." I cut him off.
Kael had lost the bulk of his power, but there were still wolves who believed in him and chose to follow him. He had built a new pack just outside Crimson Hollow. But the pack was too small and had no allies, and lately it had been crumbling toward collapse. To Kael, that pack meant everything. It was his life. If I had my way, I wanted him to pay an even steeper price for what he had done, and that pack was the perfect place to start.
"Fine. As you
