Page 48 of Veil of Shadows

I went in search of Ronyn so he and I could talk face to face.

“Alpha,” he said with a nod as I walked up alongside him.

“Commander general,” I said, clasping my hands behind my back.

Ronyn peeked over at me with an unenthused look. “Did Dom send you?”

I slowly looked over at him. “Was Dom supposed to send me?”

Ronyn’s gaze slowly turned back toward the edge of the woods. “Dom wants names of who all’s gonna be in the woods tonight.”

“And?”

“I told him to fuck off.”

I chuckled. “Doesn’t shock me. You know how he is with solstice celebrations.”

“Yeah, and this fall one is his favorite.”

I shrugged. “Mine, too. I hate the sun.”

“Sun’s great,” he grumbled.

I turned away from the woods and gazed out over the compound. I watched Dom chase after the women setting up tables and chairs for the event. I watched the children of our packs running around in the meadow, playing tag and driving their parents wild with grass stains before the start of the ceremony. Despite the fact that nothing really kicked off until sundown, we partied hard through lunch and dinner. The music was scheduled to start in only two hours’ time, and pretty soon, no one would know the time, date, or place of things until tomorrow morning.

It was organized chaos.

And I lived for it.

“Anything?” I asked Ronyn.

He promptly shook his head. “No scent. No tracks. No trace.”

I nodded curtly before I moved away from him. “Keep me abreast if things change, commander general.”

“Of course, Alpha.”

“And Ronyn?”

“What?”

I didn’t even look back as I continued walking away from him. “Try not to kill Dom before the end of the day. That charisma talent of his is pretty useful at times.”

Ronyn chuckled beneath his breath. “No promises.”

I switched the groupthink, because if there was one thing I knew about Bexley, it was that she could lurk anywhere there was darkness.

And some days, it felt like we were surrounded by it.

What about our prisoner?I asked Ronyn in groupthink as I closed off the rest of the pack from our conversation.

Still alive, unfortunately,Ronyn grumbled.

Make sure it stays that way.

I still don’t know why you’re having mercy on the?—

Make sure. It stays. That way,I practically snarled.Understood, commander general?

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