Chapter 6: The Name I Drowned

Della cornered me in the stairwell that night. "Do you understand what she's doing?" she hissed. "That reading is aimed at one wolf. The hounds will burn straight through your tincture. Alpha blood hiding under a false name in another Alpha's territory — Wren, that isn't a firing. Under pack law, that's a spying charge. That's exile or the gallows." "I know." "Then tell them the truth!" "And what's the truth, Della?" She stopped. I sat on the concrete step, and for the first time in three...