Chapter 76. A Different Path

Ainsley

I have never killed anyone before. Not even those enforcers my father sent months ago to drag me back from NGU.

But tonight all of that has changed. I have done the unthinkable. I have killed the head of the snake—my own father.

I know I should stay and fix what has been fractured for so long, be what this pack needs to move on and be something great like it has the potential to be. This act could be meant to be a catalyst for change, even if at the time I wasn’t planning on it being that way.

But I’m scared at the thought of what the pack will do to me once they know I’ve taken out their alpha.

Movement a few yards away from us has Koen and I both on high alert. Without speaking a word, he shifts and lowers his body down toward the ground, readying himself to strike.

For a split second, my heart seizes when I recognize the form of the person stumbling through the woods, soft curses leaving her lips as she pushes her way to where