Chapter 23

Willow

I blinked back a couple of times, just to be sure I wasn't imagining things. But even after shutting my eyes and opening them again, nothing had changed. The tension that hung in the air was still intact, crackling with life and threatening to burst into more trouble.

Apparently, I wasn't the only one affected by this. I caught a glimpse of Alpha Xavier at the front of the room. Even he looked shocked, like he hadn't expected the bombshell Asher had just dropped a couple of minutes ago.

“I only went to see the alpha of the renegade pack because Carter had asked me to.” Asher’s words echoed painfully in my ears.

What did he mean by that? How could Carter even do such a thing? The Renegade pack had been feuding with ours for years, longer before I was born. Growing up, my mother and every other werewolf didn't fail to imprint it in our minds that we were never to be caught the with Renegaders, as they were called. They were brutal wolves that consisted more of rogues than