Chapter 346

SILVIA

Not that I didn't love Xenois. Not that I didn't trust him to mount a brilliant tactical operation.

But Samuel and I had reputations to maintain. We were former alpha and luna who'd survived the territorial wars, who'd built a pack from blood and ash, who'd established peace through overwhelming force and strategic brutality.

Being rescued like helpless victims would diminish that reputation. Our peers—the other former alphas and lunas who remembered those days—would never let us forget it. We'd lose aura points, as the young people said these days. Become the cautionary tale instead of the legendary warriors.

No thank you.

The first lock clicked open....