NARRATIVE POV Winston Burns drove up to the gates of the Raven Peak pack. He was attending a meeting with Alpha Rollings to discuss the matter of Hilary Henry, although Burns was going under the ruse of divulging the latest update from the Council. This was Burns' opportunity to determine if the Raven Peak pack was truly involved or if they were being set up to take the fall for someone else. Someone like the Slaughtered Lambs pack, perhaps. Burns was confident that he was on the right track, NDA be damned if it meant saving the woman who had stolen his heart years ago. He remembered the day he met her. He was still young, hiding behind the shy, nerdy image that followed him like a bad smell. He was tall and lanky—those were his best-known features. He never blended into the image of his

