Three days later, I sat at the Elder Council, having been summoned abruptly—although I had expected it at some point. I’d made them wait three hours before arriving at their office, and I could tell that they were pissed about it.
“We’ve been waiting,” Evangeline snapped.
“And I have alphas from two packs visiting,” I said calmly. “Seven new businesses to staff, and a road to build.”
“What about a pack to protect?” Isaac snarled. “There have been three security breaches in two weeks. Dreyes would never have allowed that to happen.”
Sitting in the stupidly small wooden chair they’d provided for me, I stretched out my long legs and relaxed. “Dreyes didn’t have a pack that anyone cared a damn about. Besides, I wanted to expand the pack when I first took over. You were the ones who told me
