CHAPTER 169: Can't Stop Her

TORIN

There's a silence in the air after the council's representatives and their wolves have retreated from the pack borders. It's not a lasting one, not a satisfying one. But I can feel it.

The calm.

It's temporary. I know it better than anyone else. They'll always have an ace up their sleeve to get their way, to get me.

But for the time being, it's gone, they're gone.

It's a few nights after the