Chapter Twenty-Six

Torrin’s POV

“Welcome back Abe.” My welcome is met with a grunt and nod of his head. He looks tired and battered from his five day run through the mountains. We won’t be getting anything more than out of him until he has had a rest and got some warm food in his gut.

I have missed the sullen fuck since Zaine sent him out again, and hadn’t expected his return until spring at the earliest. When he announced his arrival as he came back onto pack land, the lead weight in my gut lightened ever so slightly. Whatever we are facing from the Blue Bastard to the south, as Luca has taken to calling him, and Blue Moon to the north, it will be easier to hold our own and maybe even come out on top with Abernathy on our side.

He and I are the pack’s oddballs. We are both not born of this pack and found ourselves thrown together by a rolling ball of circumstances neither one of us could avoid. We both prefer solitude and to work alone, but surprisingly to both of us, we work well as a team.

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