Traded to the tyrant
Reka personally oversaw the division of the salt reserves, ensuring that even the elderly wolves and orphaned pups received the exact same portion as the front-line fighters.
"Equality makes terrible soldiers, but exceptional citizens," Rho murmured, appearing at my side with a ledger bound in boiled leather. "In the alliance, the Alphas take sixty percent, the warrior caste takes thirty, and the omegas scavenge the chaff. Your mate just fed every single mouth in this valley equally."
"That is why they will die for her," I replied, watching Elara move through the crowd below.