Chapter 76

Book II

HAYDEN

Nights in the pack have been uneventful; it always has been for the years that we’ve been on this island, away from the other packs and away from the fight. Ever since the bloody battle that scarred our people two decades ago, great leaders have been lost to it.

My wolf brothers and I sat perched on the top of a hilltop that surrounds and overlooks the pack, watching the stars align in the sky just like any other day, but for a moment, it felt different.

“Why are you spacing out, Hayden?” Jax, a beta, and my best friend called to me while the others snickered around the fire. I don’t know why this night felt colder than the other nights I’ve spent on patrol with my men.

“I’m sure he’s thinking about the very pretty female who seduced him to her bed last night; he left early from the bar,” my other friend Beta Michael mutters, making the small group howl with laughter.

“Well, fuck you, Michael,” I mutter with a chuckle, but it was in