Chapter 39: Chapter 39

The handsome wolf looked haggard,like Zoya dying so suddenly—or perhaps knowing that Sean was outside,under the tarp with his wife’s body—was taking a toll on him on some very profound level.

Everyone went quiet,and Rider took one of the steaming mugs into his hands,but he didn’t seem interested in the food.

“I’ll do whatever it takes to make them survive this,”Rider stated,sitting on the other end of the couch from Mikael and Maxim.“That’s the least I can do.He’ll need another alpha,even though I wasn’t thinking it would happen this way.”