Chapter 33

Beth was here again. The past in the future, almost ten years hence. She had eloped with Matthew Catii, leaving behind her loyalty to the Iron Nation and rejecting the mate chosen for her among the Heether pack.

From then on, she became Matthew's most faithful companion, besotted with him and the miracle that had made it so they were each other's fated mates.

Silver Nation had been at its peak then, of course. Not long after, clouded by marital bliss and the fact that Matthew was loathe to share too many political business details with her, a mere woman, she had heard some news about Silver Nation being in grave trouble, but she hadn't known exactly what had happened then.

But what happened a month after that had reached every corner of the werewolf world.

Daniel, not only having lost his brothers but both of his parents as well to the grief, took on the mantle of sole Alpha of the Heether pack, and Alpha King of the mangled Silver Nation, and somehow gathered up a ferocious, reveng