Rejected by My Mate, Desired by His Enemy
"Already thinking it."
I write back to Vera. Send me their files. The files arrive within hours. Elder Thorne is one hundred and eighty years old with documented dark magic use going back decades. Beta Marcus is forty-five, Thorne's second for twelve years, described as capable and loyal in the way that means dangerous on both counts. Alpha Klein is sixty, his pack of moderate size, his territory sharing forty miles of border with Moonshadow land.
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Sage starts Haven and Oliver's training sessions that same week. Both children in the clearing behind the pack house, morning light, Sage patient and specific with each one.