Chapter 171

Author’s POV

“What are we doing here?” Talon asked, his voice impatient. His eyes darted around the ominous place, and a shiver of disgust ran down his spine. He had never been here before, and never in his entire life had he thought he would ever set foot in a place like this. “You know we can’t be seen here, do you?”

After they had had steamy sex and freshened up, Nina had brought him all the way to the Lunarstrike Pack, and now they were seated in a corner inside a hidden gambling den.

“Calm down, Talon,” she said. Her eyes were fixed on a particular woman across the room, and her lips curled into a sinister smile when she saw how the woman gambled with so much pride.

That woman was pathetic—and the more pathetic she was, the better for her plans. The woman would be the one to help her ensure that Zevara and her father never got married.

Emily.

Zevara’s mother.

Emily was seated around the table, playing whot with some rough- and da