Raven sat in the pit-like basement and listened to Alpha Klyne talk to Hilary. He asked her things about the pack. What she liked and what she didn’t like. What she liked about Alpha Jones and didn’t like about him. It went on for a long time like that over many things and people. Even Raven. She didn’t know if Alpha Klyne realized she was the she-wolf in the basement or not. But at some point, Raven heard Hilary whimpering and knew Alpha Klyne was making his move on her. He wanted what he believed was Alpha Jones’s. Raven could hear Hilary begging for him to stop. She changed her story and told him the truth. All it did was make him angry and more determined to make her his. He wanted a mate and he’d decided she was it and not the scrawny thing in the basement. Okay, Raven now felt offended. Scrawny? She was thin, but not scrawny. She has strength and ran just as well as anyone else if she needed to. Now she wanted out of there so she could prove to this Alpha Klyne just how scr

Raven leaned away from Alpha Jones for all his claims this was the first time he’d ever claimed to have made any type of error. Now he acted as though he hadn’t a clue about the threats his Pack members had made over the years to her and her family. As if they’d not come down from him. Nothing made sense to her, and it looked like it either didn’t make sense to Alpha Jones or he was bluffing. She wasn’t sure which it was, and it hurt. If he was bluffing, why? What would it get him? How would he benefit from all of this? “Raven, given me names of the Pack members who threatened you. I need to follow this back. Believe me that I wasn’t the one who gave the orders for this. There’s something going on right now and it’s been festering for a lot longer than I thought it has.” Raven watched Alpha Jones put his hand to his face and pinch the bridge of his nose. “This is worse than I thought, but you, Pet, are going to be the key to stopping it and setting this pack on the right path or I’

Raven stood there and stared at Dominic, stunned. Unsure if she heard him correctly. He’d changed her view of him several times within this conversation. But he hadn’t changed her decision to change her decision to not tolerate accepting a gambler as a mate. He didn’t get it, did he? The pain and torture she had to suffer. The humiliation and injuries were too much. Her life was nonexistent. Raven gave up everything for them and she had nothing to give anymore.“Raven. I don’t know what you’re talking about. What do you think I’m asking you to do? No. Don’t answer that. Let me say this. You won’t be doing anything of the likes like that again. No one will come after you anymore. What happened then, won’t happen now. I am not them. You are my mate. Not their’s. I made a mistake before, but I won’t repeat it. You won’t be in that position ever again, I promise.”She looked at him. Not knowing what to say or do. Was he aware of his promise and its delivery method? Raven never had th

Raven didn’t know if she wanted to run, kill, or stand tall. She felt so conflicted after this. She’d experienced nothing like this ever. Raven didn’t have words for it. She never heard about the annoying pain of the healing bite wound. No one had ever bitten her before. She wasn’t a fighter and Raven was skilled at avoiding bar brawls. So, it never came up. At this moment, Raven confronted a prowling male. Otherwise known as her mate, Alpha Dominic Jones. She was so screwed when this became public. No one would feel happy about this. For an hour, he had planned how to address the Pack and remove troublemakers. In her view, he could remove half of the Pack. It made little sense to her. He removed her from the Pack. Reject her and he’d please the Pack. This made no sense to her. “Can you please explain to me why you are trying to please some disembodied mythical creature? Who may or may not exist? While pissing off your Pack and risking y

“Hey, hey. Alright, there. We’ll take a break. I thought you knew some of this. At least suspect some historical details. I didn’t know you knew nothing about it. It happened when we were all tiny pups. It’s okay.” Dominic said. His voice was low and soothing to Raven. He’d not realized how this would affect her. He felt like he’d done this to her. Why did everyone let this go? How did they allow Kelsey to escape without consequences? Who allowed such injustice to spread and persist? The rotten wolves didn’t suffer, in any actual sense. They had others they could hurt. “I’m sorry. I don’t remember ever hearing anything like that. Nobody ever mentioned that about my mother to me. Raven said. “No, that’s not quite true. They’ve inferred it, but stated no facts. I can’t identify any specific incident or time. “It’s okay because it’s not true and they didn’t know what they were doing. It was them spreading vicious lies.” “Lies that got her