The Alpha King's Human Obsession
"I recognized one of the guards. Not a rogue. A Blackwood wolf, one of Alaric's personal guard."
The silence that followed was absolute. Marlowe watched the color drain from Ronan's face, watched Kellan's hand drift instinctively toward the blade at his hip.
"Say that again," Ronan said, low and dangerous.
"I know what I saw," the scout said. "Torren. Alaric's second, the one who trains his personal guard. He was standing at the fortress gate likas belonged there, giving orders to men I didn't recognize. I don't know what it means, my king, but it isn't a coincidence."