Chapter 101

Netya held her tongue, but she could not help but feel a smug sense of satisfaction now that the alpha had intervened. He had punished Vaya before for far less. Now she would finally get her comeuppance.

This time, however, Khelt’s words were cold and harsh. “I have no time to listen to two bitter females bicker like children. You say one thing, and you say the other,” he gestured to both of them in turn, “who am I to believe?”

Me, Netya thought, her throat growing painfully tight, you should believe me. Am I not the one you care for?

But Khelt had barely said a kind word to her all day. Perhaps the sting of seeing her with Caspian still hurt. Perhaps he was only trying to be a fair leader. Either way, her time of receiving preferential treatment from the alpha seemed to be over.

“I will need the strength of my hunters and the skills of my seers in the days to come,” Khelt said. “Settle it between yourselves, or make sure this disagreement never reaches my ea