Aleks reappeared in the evening, looking exhausted.
His clothing was disheveled and there was a little dirt across his cheek, but he did not seem to be distressed, and he approached Ares confidently and without hesitation.
“Nothing to worry about.”
That was his astute summary of what lay ahead for us, and it revealed his utter lack of experience because there was no way Luc would have accepted that as an answer from someone who had been scouting for his pack.
It didn’t give Ares any sort of helpful information whatsoever, and I had to turn away because I had wrinkled my nose at his useless announcement, and I didn’t want Aleks to be offended if he noticed.
“Aleks, I am going to need you to give me a little more information than that. It’s not that I don’t trust you, but ‘nothing to wo
