"That is a question for the Alpha and Elders of this pack, girl."


    "Alright, I''m about done with his bullsh*t." My wolf grumbles in my head, and I know she shed in my eyes based on Drake''s smug look. Yeah we''re irritated that he is tantly not calling me the Alpha, but it will take more than that to get us to crack.


    "Considering you are talking to the Alpha of this pack and I have made no deals with any witches in my time, you will have to do better than that. What does she think is owed to her?"


    "You aren''t a very good Alpha if your Elders and former Alpha haven''t filled you in on pack business. Your pack owes my mistress and she hase to collect. She will do so by any means possible."


    "Don''t you think this would go a helluva lot more quickly if I was told the demand, maybe even by Eliza herself?" I ask, crossing my arms. "Or is she so afraid of our kind that she has to use you and Jeff as schelps?"


    "I am but a humble servant for my mistress." He spreads his arms, chains clinking as he does. "She does not need to negotiate with lower species if she does not wish."


    I take a deep breath and let it out slowly. "Jax, will you make sure all of the Elders are in my office in twenty minutes, they are under house arrest. You can tell them as much if it makes them move their asses. We aren''t going to get much more out of him. Dev, connect with Ben, see if he has any other questions for this asshole, he dies today." I know Ben is listening in, but like me his focus is divided and I want to make sure he finds out what he needs to know for closure with Kennedy.


    "Why kill my parents?" I ask again. Obviously, Eliza is trying to take over; we knew that, but to what extent? She thinks wolves are lesser and should be ves. The drugs show us that she has acheived a level mind control that doesn''t syphon off her magic. But why my pack or Ma''s? We have the two smallest packs in the region. Even gaining both wouldn''t give her an army to take on someone like Rayna''s brother. So what gives?


    "Your parents demise was not nned and why we have allowed you to keep Jeff here. He obviously cannot be trusted with menial tasks, let alone important ones. Your father was needed toplete the contract; your mother was not. We clearly put the wrong wolf in charge of their observation, Jeff let bis greed and lust get the better of him." Copyright 2025 Miss L Writes and Ember Mantel Productions


    My eyes slide back down the hallway where Jeff is asleep in the corner, withering away from theck of food and water. “He was only supposed to observe my father, not my mother and me?"


    "Yes and no. He was supposed to


    listen in on your father''s


    conversations with the Elders. Jeff we discovered early on, is not the best atrying information he overhears. He figured out that he could get his rocks off in the same way I will say many of our warriors have had very pleasant evenings thanks to you." He smiles ear to ear this time as my wolf lets out a growl in my chest. I can feel Ben''s irritation as well. For some odd reason, that''s not what bothers me the most.


    "He was poisoning my mother slowly, why? Who finally killed her while she was in


    the pack hospital?” It shouldn''t matter he admitted that their group killed her, had been nning to kill her from the beginning, but I want to know who did it. I need to hear the words.


    "Your father did, of course."


    My world tilts. NO! That can''t be true. My father loved my mother; he would never..."