Alder pov So the day is finally here? Ever since I received that note from my mate it was almost as if I was living in a sort of a bubble where I had to started directing my people for a fight that I couldn't even understand why it was happening at all. But from the little that I have learnt about Cassandra after being married to her, I was guessing that this was probably retaliation for poisoning her and abandoning her like that I knew that she wasn't going to take it easy but after having several days of rest I thought that maybe she has decided to move on he thought that have seen quite under justable until finally I got the notes from a messenger that she had sent saying that she wanted war. Honestly it was like being jolted out of a dream as my eyes had scrambled through the words and my fingers have sunk to the into the note almost to the point of ripping it apart some of my men have told me to beat up the messenger that came alive one of the most my second-in-command James

Cassi pov As my eyes went up and I saw that we were finally within sight of the pack house I decided to turn around and explain the plan to the recruits once more because the last thing that I needed now was any mistakes because it will be very costly if anybody made a mistake right now or did something that will blow our cover that we have been trying our best all this time to maintain. While we were running here already shifted in our wolf forms and our sense mostly locked away from even the sharpest of noses, the warriors that we came across watching the border as we passed by with fewer than I had expected that means that they are really put even more people that I was thinking about into the war against this worked in our favor but for some reason it made me feel uncomfortable it was this kind of negative feeling that someone would feel bubbly at the bottom of their stomach when things were going so well and they were just too accustomed to everything have been a glitch or a p

Alder pov There was something that was telling me that they shouldn't loosen up the ropes for her, but I couldn't help it. I really thought I wasn't feeling well at all seeing her in that uncomfortable position. It was odd because the wife that had been arranged for me had literally been throwing ceramics in my direction and yet it had barely startled me at all. obviously I was shocked by the fact that she was doing that at all but most of the time I just felt completely unreactive to anything it would be happening to her it wasn't as it right there or what I was mostly not really disturbed by anything that related to her and just saw her as another pack member without any special difference. But the moment I saw that my men had tied up my mate I felt like ripping those ropes off her and then finding people that had tied her up like that but I had to remind myself that right now she was on the enemy side in fact she was the one that was practically leading them. Since she had

Cassi pov I waited for the shock to settle in him, patiently as I wàs sipping on the tea that had been prepared for me. When he was finally able to speak again he sounded like he was ready to pass out at that very second. "Queen Cassandra, keeping him alive is already going to be hard enough but now you eve-" I cut him off by raising up my hand after freeing it from the cup of tea that I had been holding at that second. "I know it will be hard…I'm not daft, I'm sure that the high Court won't even let me sit down first before they call me over to be drilling me…but all of this has taught me how to handle them…" After I said this I could see that he was digging through his mind for a good reason to discourage me from the decision that I was about to make but I told him not to bother with that at all. I was going to bring him along with me. I had already made that decision with all of my heart and there was nothing that was going to change it no matter what he said there was not go

Cassi pov "You can't keep him…" This is the meeting that I expected it would eventually happen, the members of the high Court were not placed with me and I was not surprised because they were not really the type of smile with me most of the time initially when they were informed that I had in won the war the hard the cheekiest of smiles as if they had been the one to encourage me in the first place when they have been nothing more than pillars and obstacles that I had to cross. All about the smiles in their faces are immediately evacuated when they found out that I had kept the alpha of the werewolves alive they are probably expecting me to immediately execute him on the spot and initially that was the thought that they were having that I had brought him over here to still have his execution done with their approval but surprisingly enough that was not my plan at all for him and I watched their faces go through different stages of denial until finally the head of the high Court po