Chapter 63

Livia watched Joseph and Alpha Rhye leave without a single question. Rhye knew the need to know where they were going and what they were doing burned on the tip of her tongue. It hadn’t escaped his notice that she observed everything with rapt attention to detail. She’d seen their weapons, cash, and antiquities littering various surfaces.

She’d asked as much from them yesterday, and it had taken a small piece of him to deny her the answers she was looking for.

Rhye wanted to share his world with her. If she knew the truth, she’d understand the things they did, while not always wholesome acts, were for the greater good. In their own twisted way, they helped people and made it a mission of theirs to serve and protect just as much as, if not more than, any harm they caused.

A ruler could ask for no more. He may be on the path to ruling the council, but he was not an ambitious werewolf. He never longs for a seat in the council. He had a pack to worry about. His pack had long-