F E N R I R I sat in front of the council, staring them down and wondering what the f**k they wanted this time. A meeting with the council is never a good thing. It had been a week since the ball. A week since I'd seen Barron's smug face. I had increased security at the house, but I couldn't shake the feeling that something was coming. "The council has received a formal complaint from Alpha Barron," one of the council members said, a serious look on his face. "He is claiming that you have stolen his property." "That's bullshit," I said, my anger starting to rise. "Leilani is my mate. She's not property. She's the mother of my child." "The law states that any human purchased by a pack is the property of that pack," another council member said, his tone neutral. "Unless the human is a r

