Chapter 54: 'I'm sorry, Kee.'

AMBROSE

I lied.

The pack needs you back, Kee. Desperately….

Your mother misses you sorely….

And something doesn’t feel right about your Uncle. He’s… acting strange.

When he thinks that no one is looking, he mutters… he whispers… as though he’s talking to someone. But there’s no one around him.

I think he’s sick… but he says he isn’t.

A Delta follows the orders of a Beta—who acts on behalf of the Alpha.

I want to bring you back, Kee.

But my orders were: make sure he doesn’t feel the need to ever return.

I turned away from the slightly bitten moon, faintly present behind the thick veil of white clouds and blue sky.

What can a third rank werewolf do? Can he disobey the acting leader of the pack?

What if he exiled my parents? Will we survive the wilderness? Are we willing to give up everything and become rogues?

Crushing my fingers in my palms, I moved back indoors and looked around Kee’s quarters—everything was exactly as what I heard in the grapevine that stemmed