She looked good, mated life agreed with her, but I could see the strain and the frustration in her eyes. We spent almost an hour talking, as she filled me in on everything that was going on. By the end, she was crying. "I can't do this, Vivian. I'm not who they need, they will all die if you don't help."

"I never said I wouldn't help, Jessica, just that I was not ever returning to that Pack," I said. "I won't endanger myself or my life with increasingly desperate wolves. I do have a way around this, but the Alpha isn't going to like it." Snake and I had...