Mated to the Alpha CEO
"We have to go back! Mother and Father are still—"
"They're gone." Ronan's voice cracked. "Eira, they're gone. The raiders — they hit the elder's den first. There's nothing left."
"We can't just leave them!"
"If we stay, we die too. Come on!"
They fled together through the burning forest, the sounds of battle fading behind them. The raiders were wolves from the far north — pale-furred, scarred, merciless. They had come seeking territory, seeking slaves, seeking the eastern herbs that grew nowhere else in the world. Ronan's pack had refused to surrender. Now they were paying the price.