Aidan opened his eyes slightly at the brightness coming through his window, then settled back by Summer's side. The she-wolf had stayed with him all night, keeping watch over the poisoned wolf while Akela and the rest of her pack worked with the mad wolves.

Rhiannon hadn't slept either, but a couple of hours before she'd sent her to the cabin to get some rest. Aidan had used the time lapses of the wounded wolf's resting periods to interact with the freed wolves and bring them back to reality, but he was undoubtedly not in the mood to ask the tough questions, so it was Akela who took over for him.

“Brat, you need to rest, too,” said the huge Alpha wolf approaching.

“I can't. If anything happens to him—”

“Nothing is going to happen to him. At least the wolves are already controlled and calm, and outside there are two paladins guarding us. We'll be fine,” Akela assured him. “But you have to rest brat. From what I’ve been seeing... we may soon go from being a youth hostel to a nursing hom