Chapter 194

• Aysel's POV
• I had no intention of spending the next weeks enduring the snide, thinly veiled hostility of my own team. If that was the price of keeping quiet, I'd rather bare my fangs now and make them swallow their doubts whole.
• Andrea's eyes widened at my challenge-sharp, brazen, and delivered without hesitation. She clearly hadn't expected a young wolf, freshly arrived from the Moonvale Pack, to initiate a formal duel of skill.