How are you not tied to the Crystal Eclipse pack?’ Hudson asked again, ‘even Quinn cannot leave them, so how did you manage to escape?’ Hugh pulled his family closer, placing a kiss on his wife’s head as she nodded up at him. ‘We were never a part of Alpha Trent’s pack’ he confided. ‘My family was a member of Redwood River pack for generations, my great grandfather joined them when he was mated to one of the lead warriors of the pack. As Grandpa was only a lowly guard as he liked to say, he decided it made more sense for him to move for his mate than for her to leave her family and come to him.’ Hugh smiled softly at the memory, Celia snuggling closer in his arms. Clearing his throat, Hugh continued, ‘Celia is from another pack, I found her when her Alpha came to us to talk about a trea

