AKIRA'S POV

The next few minutes consisted of me asking around for Magnus. He was pretty easy to find, but it took a great deal of my imperfect acting skills to convince him that Ares wanted him to be my guard for the day.

The poor young wolf was elated, he said something about finally being able to prove his worth to Ares. And I almost felt bad for lying to him. But when I wanted something, I would go the extra mile for it.

Madam Yelena was harder to convince when I requested for Carla to be dropped and for me to follow Eve and Lenny but once I...