Chapter 20

Drake POV

            I admit I had been surprised to hear from Alpha Jackson.  It had been a few weeks with silence.  I was starting to doubt my abilities to attract him to our alliance offer.  I had a problem to fix – expanding the scope of our alliances and I was struggling to make traction with our priority Pack – Golden Moon.

            There were no rumours through the grapevine, so to speak, to give an indication why he would call now.  He called a couple of days ago, and I was lying in bed pondering whether Kate would be attending the meeting.

            Feeling an arm snake across my chest, I look at Elise who is just waking in my bed.  She is a blond-haired, blue-eyed beauty I had met a couple years before.  We had recently started d