Chapter 6

I never expected to run into him here—let alone discover he was the very man my mother had set me up with for a blind date, a potential alliance partner. “It was fine staying there,” I said, “but my mother’s here now. As her daughter, it’s only right I come back to help manage my own pack.” Leo Carter had always struck me as quiet and composed during our youth exchange years ago. But now, with me, he seemed unusually talkative. “So you’re settled here now?” he asked. “Didn’t...