Chapter 35

Arkin

"Father," I answered the phone, watching Aerick lead Stormie away. I was worried about what would happen if he still turned out not to be her mate. But I had to let her go find out and I needed to handle things here.

"Report," my father called out, worry lacing his voice even this early in the morning. It sounded like he'd been up for awhile, which is probably true as I doubt he even slept much last night. I could hear other voices in the background and asked him to put us on speaker phone as I did the same.

I updated him on how many casualties. I let them know that we'd already prepped the bodies of all of the fallen and were sending them home already for burial. We'd all gotten our targets and would be bringing the heads tomorrow when Azaziel, Alpha Fredrick and I traveled to the royal pack. The rest of the Elite would remain here to watch over the pack temporarily.

I didn't tell them that apparently Stormie had literally ripped Kaden's head off, but I'm sure they