Gaia's POV

The gates of Rose Heart Pack territory loomed before us like the entrance to a battlefield.

And in many ways, that's exactly what it was.

Aurora stood at the head of a delegation of pack nobles, her silver hair gleaming in the afternoon sun. Behind her, I recognized several of the elders who had dismissed me at the war council—Gamma Commander Rex, tactical advisor Mark, and a half-dozen others whose names I'd never bothered to learn.

Their expressions ...