The Wolf's Betrayal

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int rays of sunshine filtering through the trees. The clearing was still and quiet, darkened by the dense backdrop

whispering in low tones, oblivio

twinkling in his dark eyes. "I mean, the alpha b

like he would've told her. And anyway, she's outside; maybe she

overheard their words. "She'll figure it out soon enough," the first wolf said. "

shouted but bit my to

at me with a strange expression in his eyes, cold, but curious, at best. "Get up," he s

order." I met his stare unwaveringly and defied him. "Really? Why save me at all if you planned to throw me out?" For the briefes

ill?!" Amused by the conversation, everyone strictly maintained a distance, while some watched from the shades of the tree. Kael smiled a cold smile without amusement. "I have no heart left in

Kael decided for a moment to drone his eyes into mine, as though weighing an option. His jaw clenched, and the tension I felt in his sho

r pack," he mutters in his. I couldn't hold my anger. "I didn't wander off my pack! I'm on a quest! I bet you won

note of finality. Kael's countenance softened, at least for a heartbeat, before he turned away. "Ren, sh

on, meticulously scrutinizing me. "Come on, follow me... if that's what you want." I nodded and fell in step beside him, back. Kael followed me with his gaze as I walked away, a

e trees with his shoulders set in a manner that told me he wasn'

place around a stone fire pit, a small shelter where they kept their

ss it works so far." Ren shrugged, his eyes draped nonchalantly over to me in sort of an amused manner. "We make a life. You learn to live with less around he

s, he had probably been through more than I could imagine. "So... what

deeper within than he being an alpha." Ren shifted his eyes around t

?" I shook my head, my

d, finally weighing the odds of te

ouncil " "What?" I whispered, hardly able to process the shock. "What are you saying?" "Years ago," Ren expla

it was a setup way to get him out because they were really afraid of him."

puppet they could control. And Kael...is not that type. "Really," I asked, surprisingly. Well, let's j

g it, but it now made sense; the coldness in his eyes, the dist

home now, even if it's rough." I stared at Ren, a strange mix of anger towards Kael and admiration. He had built something here, taken in wolves that had nowhere else to go. And he'd done it while carrying the burden of betrayal across his sho

ad not given thought to what he had endured. And

rom a distance, the expression on his face unreadable. I was unable to shake off the t

d to reply to Ren but noticed a silhouette moving between the trees behind him, a figure watching from the depths of the darkness. I squinted, trying to recognize wh