Derek nodded at his uncle’s greeting with his face totally blank of any emotion. He didn’t want to let out that he felt like ripping the older man’s lips which he had used to laugh evilly at him, especially for sending his cousin after him, to spy on him. He just kept mute, while staring at the place which had been his home at one time, before the world had fallen.

He watched as his cousin answered questions about his pack and all the things that had been happening there, as if ...