Kael’s POV

“I need to keep moving,” she said, when she was done sulking. “You have a dormant wolf, you don’t need a horse.”

I still didn’t know why she was mad.

“You have to find your mate, remember?” she continued when I made no response. “You have to find her and kill her before another mating season begins and more of your people die. Have you forgotten that?

I hadn’t.

But she was alone. A young girl with a latent wolf, in a region now filled with rogues that attacked in groups and humans.

“You keep saying you can take care of yourself but I know you can’t,” I...