Chapter 40

Third person's POV

Lucius said, "The other day, at the Ironbeam Pack's Cecelia's bonding ceremony, I heard that Valerica had her Beta deliver a gift, but it was returned."

Lycan Theron frowned and asked, 'Why would that be?'

Lucius's Adam's apple suddenly rolled, and his neck glands uncontrollably released a cypress scent—an instinctive reaction of lower-ranking wolves when reporting sensitive mat