CALDER My brother practically vibrated beside me. I already knew this wasn’t going to go well. Our absence was noticed, and it was likely that Father hadn’t stepped in in the interim. Intuition told me Ackford was behind everything, but we still needed to play this correctly. “You’ll have to excuse us,” I said carefully. “I don’t remember my twins growing up so soon.” The wolf in front snarled, his lip curling in disgust. Clearly, not a fan. He looked vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t pick out a name. “Blue Moon has a new Alpha. And you’re wanted wolves.” “It’s cute that you think you have any authority to do anything to us,” Cullen laughed. “You can’t just declare yourself Alpha,” Gentry said. “Not much of a declaration when the Elder Council determines the Alphas have abandoned t