Chapter 5: Greywater Comes North

They stopped five trucks under the wooden arch and got out in a line.

Twelve Greywater wolves fanned out behind Carson, with June's father at his right hand and June herself at his left.

Carson did not look like an Alpha.

His shirt was wrinkled and his collar was open, and there were grey hollows under his eyes.

June held his elbow, and he let her.

Ansel walked down the hill and stopped in the road between us.

He did not raise his voice.

"You're on Shadowfang ground, Lysle."

"I came for what's mine," Carson said. "Where is she?"

"She's a guest in my aunt's house. She isn't yours or mine. She's her own."

"She is a broken mate of the Greywater Alpha. Under old law she belongs to my hearth until the mend," Carson said.

"Then you should not have broken it, and you should not have driven six hours north with a pack at your back."

"Twelve wolves is not a pack," the Beta said sharply.

"Eleven and a half," Ansel said. "That one is still wearing his pajama pants."

A Shadowfang wolf behind me snorted, and the Greywater men shuffled.

I walked out of the crowd and stopped beside Ansel's shoulder.

Carson saw me and made a sound halfway between relief and anger.

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