Chapter 38

• Axel
• I stood by the window with my hands buried in my pockets and my eyes glued to the starry sky. Natalie had told Mathieu she'd wake Ruby, but that was almost half an hour ago. The longer they took to come downstairs, the more irritated I grew at being forced to be in the same room as these people.
• Xavier had no right to talk about my father. I'm here. I'm handling things, and that's just the way things are. How dare he act like I don't know what I'm doing? My eyes wandered from the sky to the towering trees and I clenched my jaw. This land, this entire fucking land, belongs to my people, too. We barely have enough space in the area where we've been forced to settle for years, whereas both packs could easily spread out on this land and never even come across each other in passing.