Chapter 17 The Run

• Clara’s face twisted in disgust as she tried to argue, "But Alpha Elijah, she’s wolfless and had a child out of wedlock with some nameless wolf. She’s a disgrace!”
• I felt the heat rise in my chest, the humiliation threatening to boil over. How could she still look at me like that after everything I had endured? Elijah’s voice sliced through the air before I could react.
• “As a woman,” Elijah’s tone was icy, sending chills through the bus, “you’re using century-old prejudices to degrade another? It seems someone has forgotten their manners. How unfortunate, James, that your wife is such a disgrace."