Hazel's POV

I watched as the shadows of Beta Henry flashed out with the young man, till I saw their backs no more. I had been asking to know if anything was wrong, but Alpha Matteo assured me it was a pack affair—something I wasn’t meant to be involved in.

It sounded calming at first, until it clicked in my head that I had heard something about the Queen Mother of Yellowstone.

“Alpha Matteo!” I quietly called, rubbing both of my fingers together in tension, while I tried to think of a way not to sound desperate, since they had already told me to forget about the matter.

“Little one,”...