I shouldn’t

~After a few days~

“Why can’t you just let it go already?! Why are you so bothered about that Slave still being alive?” Maeve muttered to Alpha Cephas who had just finished having a meeting with his Betas on how to track Belinda.

“You know I won't give up, Maeve. That girl and that wolf ridiculed me, I will never let that slide.”

“Haven’t you done enough? I went with you to that tree stump, I smelled her awful blood because of you. I told you, she is far away from here, and I believe she’ll never return.”

“You can’t be so sure, Maeve. You lost track of her in the woods, that doesn’t mean she’s far away.”

“So I just lost track of her? You and I know very well that once I can’t get the scent of anything, it means it’s so far away from where we left and where we’re headed.”

Alpha Cephas sighed and walked up to her. He lifted her hand and gave it a kiss.

“Maeve, don’t worry about it, okay? I promise not to get you involved anymore.” He uttered softly.

“That’s not what I want. You