Chapter 45: Cane - The Debate

“You knew?”

My Beta and best friend stood before me, his attention on the pale blonde curled up on my bed.

“We all look ten years younger,” Evan said, ignoring my words. “How?”

He wasn’t wrong. Aspen was something…new. Something different. Something that terrified my entire pack but also roused the curiosity of all the wolves.

She could be a weapon.

Or she could be our salvation.

Three dozen shifters in wolf form lay curled on my porch and the surrounding area, waiting to see if she was okay. No one cared this much even when I’d mated my first wife. Aspen wasn’t good at making friends or forming relationships, but I don’t think she realized how many of my people wanted to be her friend. They were waiting for her to approach them, and when she hadn’t, they’d felt confused.