Chapter 10: An Offer Gone Awry

I walked into training a few days later, and it was like a record scratched, and the music stopped. Silence fell like a lead balloon, the oppression of it making my palms sweaty. Every single wolf's eyes turned to me. I sent a prayer up that I was no longer limping and didn't look like prey anymore.

Well, not any more than usual.

Jun waited at the front, his expression carefully blank. He sported a sling. I frowned at it, but didn't comment or even say a word to anyone.

Not even Cassie. Especially not her.

If Jun was in a sling, someone or something had seriously injured him. With a shifter's healing abilities, he should be back in action within hours. Maybe a day if the break was severe enough.

Strange.

When I'd situated myself comfortably in the middle, surrounded by two groups of shifters who didn't look at me like they hated me, Jun spoke again.