Chapter 8 - Challenge Your Own.

For just a few moments, Layon allowed himself to believe that this was how things were meant to be. Lying in the moss with Angel snuggled up

against his chest, his arm wrapped affectionately around her, he could almost

believe he was right where he was meant to be. With eyes closed, he imagined what their lives might have been like if her father hadn't tried to kill his. Reebah had been adamant right up until then that he and Angel would eventually lead their pack. And although Layon had laughed at his sister, too full of male bravado to admit that she might be right, he had imagined it multiple times. Now it seemed closer than ever, and yet the possibility couldn't have been further away. If he were even caught like this with her now, his acceptance into the alpha challenges might be revoked.

Although his father was the current alpha, he couldn't imagine that would hold enough

weight if all the senior members of the pack learned he had been fraternizing with the traitor's daughte