Aidan felt his heart break as his nose began to bleed. Inside him, Akela and eighteen other wolves howled in anguish.

The Alphas looked at him with concern because by now, they all knew that, unless a ghost had broken his nose, that was caused by what they were doing to the queen.

He wiped his nose angrily as he prayed to the Goddess for two things: first, that Rhiannon would be able to send him a sign of where she was, and second, that all those who were hurting her would be alive when he arri