Chapter 221

• Third Person's POV
• Damon's mind raced. If things went awry with Judy, the Thunderfang heiress, his carefully constructed position would collapse instantly. The pack politics, his budding authority, all of it rested on delicate balance-and Celestine had just stirred the den.
• "Aysel..." he muttered under his breath, instinctively glancing toward Aysel. She was Celestine's sister-trusting her was the safest course. In the past... hadn't it always been this way?