Well, that would make my mother happy because she didn’t want me to move down away from her.
“Alpha Riaz.”
“Well met. Thank you for coming here to help find your lost Packmate, one of ours. You have our resources, anything that you need. If you need to stay for more than a few nights, we have guest quarters outside of the den. They’re guarded by our lieutenants, as well as other dominant wolves. You will be housed, fed, anything that you need. You name it.”
I looked at his face, my gaze slightly below his. “That’s generous of you. Thank you.”
“Thank you for coming here to help find Spencer. We’ve been looking, but we can’t catch his scent.” His jaw tightened. “I’m afraid it’s because he’s turned rogue,” he said, and you could’ve heard a pin drop.
I swallowed hard and nodded. “That’s my fear too. Although he was a lone wolf for a long time; I don’t picture him ever going rogue, and that’s what worries me.”
“It worries us too. I have a call coming in with your Alpha and Gideon, the Alpha of the Talon Pack, to discuss the rogue situation. We’re having similar interactions with rogues as you are up there.”
“You might want to loop in the Alphas of the Centrals and the Aspens,” I added.
Riaz raised a brow. “I was unaware that you had full allyship with them.”
“Those two Alphas are newer in power than you or any of the Alphas that I answer to, but they still have knowledge.”
I wasn’t about to discuss the law and history of the Aspens and the Centrals with us, but most people knew a lot of it anyway.
“I’ll reach out to them.”
“Kade would reach out to them nonetheless, but it would show goodwill for you to do so.”
“You sounded like your cousin just then,” Riaz said, a smirk on his face.
This time I rolled my eyes, the tension leaking out of me. “Parker is training me to be diplomatic. I’m better than my twin, but not the greatest.”
“Good to know. Do you want to begin, or do you want to rest after traveling?”
My wolf stood on attention, and I rolled my shoulders back. “I need to begin. I think I have something.”
And with that, the hunt began.
Chapter 5
Kaylee
My wolf clawed at me,wanting out, but I wasn’t about to shift and make myself vulnerable in front of people I didn’t know. I would have to soon if I wanted to get the scent later, but for now, I let my wolf rise to the surface, so my eyes were glowing gold and lighting up the area around me, but I was still in control.
The two wolves from the Starlight Pack behind me were lieutenants for the Pack enforcer. They weren’t anyone I had met on the airfield or even in the Pack circle with their Alpha. However, they were dominant, intelligent, and had a purpose. They wanted to find Spencer as much as I did.
Maybe more because both of them had said they had been childhood friends of the man.
My heart twisted at the thought, the idea that Spencer had left his Pack behind because his wolf had needed to roam, and when he had settled in the Redwood den, Spencer had begun to create roots, paths, and connections.
He wasn’t a wolf that was supposed to go rogue, but then the war with the humans, and then the Aspens, have created battle and war after war, and Spencer had lost the woman that was supposed to be his mate.
They hadn’t forged a bond but had instead taken their time doing their own courting.
Not all wolves mated the same, and thanks to the Moon Goddess’s intervention a few years ago, things were dramatically different than they had been even when my parents had mated.
Now, there was more of a choice in the matter, and it took longer for others to find their mate. As if there was a cloud or a shadow over the bond that could be created between two or more souls.
It had taken my cousin years to figure out what the bond between them could be, and another cousin had mated at first sight.
It depended on the wolves, but I knew matings were harder to come by because of the fact that our connections to the Moon Goddess had changed. She had made a sacrifice for us, at least according to the Supreme Alphas. I wasn’t sure what that was, nor did I know if they knew, but how wolves reacted with the rest of the world had changed.