James takes me aside while Chris clean up but is still simmering from our fight.
His voice is soft, but his words heavy.
“Jonah says Diesel is moving rogues closer to our borders. Not for a full attack. Not yet. But he’s testing us. Watching where we bend, where we break.”
My stomach tightened. “And?”
His jaw ticked.
“And the outcasts we’ve taken in? They’ve been marked. Their old packs are demanding them back or ordering their deaths either if we kill them or hand them over to them so they can do the job, they claim that they are traitors. If we don't do it then they will see it as a defiance and we will become their enemy, we will start a war.”
I stared at him, heat flooding my chest.
“They came here for safety, they came here to finally fit in and not be abused and now their o
