Chapter Eleven

Brayden paced the yard behind the Pride House in Bear form. Even taking a long run through the woods did nothing to relieve the animal’s stress. He loved the clean smell that winter brought to the land and the beast had marveled at running through the frost covered mountains, but he hadn’t alleviated any excess of energy he’d been feeling.

The snow-covered trees always looked pristine against the dark gray skies of the early afternoon in this part of Burlington County. Usually, it would help to settle his anxious animal. But not today.

The Council of Shifters had come to get a final testimony for Hunter about Blake Segal, effectively closing the file on the former Beta. They were all better off without the infectious male. He seemed to breed unrest, and his taint was even more obvious now with him dead.