Kaleb’s POV

“You lost her?!”

My voice crashed through the pack house like thunder, rattling the windows, splitting the silence that had choked this place since dawn.

Xavier and the scout beside him flinched. Cowards. They didn’t even try to lie.

Heat rose beneath my skin, my claws biting grooves into the oak desk. How could they have failed so completely? How could I?

“You left her with a rogue?” The words burned my tongue, each syllable a snarl. “Two trained warriors ...