Chapter 65

“What?!” Arec roared. “What do you mean this challenge is to the death?”

“That’s how we settle things these days, bro,” Samuel said, smirking at Arec. “You’d know this if you attended more Pack meetings.”

Arec looked at Michael and asked, “Were you aware of this?”

Michael looked at his mother and said, “I had a suspicion that Mother might still follow the old ways when it came to this.”

“What old ways?” Eve asked.

Arec glared at his mother before turning to Eve and saying, “In the old days, Pack law was settled by a fight to the death, but these days, I thought we’d become more civilized.”

Looking back to his mother, he added, “It seems that I was wrong.”

His mother pursed her lips and looked away.

“Too bad for your girlfriend,” Sabrina said, bearing her teeth in a grin directed at Eve.

“Now, wait just a minute,” Arec said, starting to stand.

Eve put her hand on his arm. He looked at her before sitting back down in his seat.

“I’ve got this,” she told him, staring at Sabri