(Caius)
Isla was at breakfast when I came back from the council room.
The table was quieter than usual at this hour, most of the pack already done with their morning meal and back to their routines. She sat in her usual seat beside mine with a plate in front of her and her eyes on the window. She looked up when I came in and something in her expression shifted.
I sat down beside her.
She waited.
"I need to tell you something," I said.
She didn't ask what it was before I said it. She simply looked at me and waited.
"Three territorial leaders sent correspondence while we were traveling back from Ashcrest," I said. "Two want formal confirmation of the mate bond and the Celestial wolf claim."
"And the third," she said.
"The High Council of the Eastern Territories," I said. "They want
