“I’m trying my best, but he’s done quite a remarkable job to ensure he has a clean record. I have only found reports and correspondence here and there detailing his pluck and ambition as a young alpha.
My face pinched in confusion. Ambition? In that measly wolf?
The image of his pathetic form bending in submission before me, in front of his entire pack, burned in the forefront of my mind. However formidable a force he might have been all those years ago, he was merely but a shadow of that alpha now. Still, I couldn’t help but wonder if something had happened to spark that change.
And if so, was Maeve connected to any of it?
“How peculiar,” I muttered pensively. “Dig further, if you can. There’s something odd about that man.”
“Of course.”
“And what of the necklace? That strange penda
