y Bur

rk gold Dire Wolf crest, my fingertips trembling as I s

oo far," I said, fighting to keep my voic

himself a glass of ice water, and took

ring a quarterly financial report. "It's not a joke,

What value could an orphan Wolfless living off the Glover and Mcd

th hands, his tall frame radiating pressure. "I need a

ssive cross-border corporate merger. The board and the Elders are demanding I es

corporations where the Elders acted as conservative board advisors, so his logic

n only bring endless political schemes and spying fr

an background, no messy pack alliances, and mos

lunt words laid my lack of fam

y head, squeezing my heart like an invisible fist a

picked up my phone with shaking fingers, and tried to dial my adoptive

the screen, his large hand covered my phone, the cold silve

to call Katherine Sweeney? From what my people tell me, her ex-husband Schmidt is cur

e at the Mcdowell manor, never telling me anything, yet this Alpha K

hing room. "If you go back now, not only can you not help her, you'll

the phone onto my lap, a heavy sen

ers turned faintly red, and his fingers twitche

turning cold and hard again. "Jackson Glover is a fool. He thinks cutting o

chest ache, and I gripped the e

this Blood Pact, and you instantly become the supreme Luna of the Ric

estion. "If we're just acting for the Elders, why a Blood Pact? A Blood Pact is

pped the contract to the last page

ife," he said, his low, raspy voice carrying a strange, hypnotic

nowing it was just a corporate transaction, the

is the contract

oat bobbing slightly. "Unt

y gaze to the fine print on the page and froze

?" Among werewolves, a male biting a female's neck left

fierce glint in his eyes. "I told you, this is

to look back at me. "You have ten minutes to decide. Sign it