Elias POV
“How many were in this pack?” I question Marcus.
“They were a smaller pack. We counted eighty-seven bodies….. A lot of them were children sir.”
Marcus’ declaration makes my skin crawl. Who kills innocent children? They probably hadn’t even come into their wolves yet and were not able to shift to run away. I rub my hands through my hair for the millionth time today. “and Abel found them?” I ask. Its four thirty in the damn morning. I didn’t even get to greet my mate this morning before I was called here. When I left her in my office this afternoon when Marcus caught a witch on our border, I felt horrible. She came to me in need, although she wouldn’t tell me, I knew what she wanted. She needed to escape her troubles and I left her to deal with them. Being an Alpha is not alw
