*Jared*

We’d come back to the village three days earlier than expected.

It should have been a happy homecoming. We’d successfully tracked down the three wolves who’d left Archer at the edge of our territory. They hadn’t been the ones who attacked him, that was clear. But they’d been nearby and had run into the rogue who jumped Archer before he was able to cross over into our boundary.

I paid them handsomely not only for their information, but also ...