When we got back to the Hightail Packhouse I expected Alpha Walker to ask me to wait somewhere out of the way, but he took us to the main stables to leave the horse, and led me to the main entrance of the Packhouse calmly.
I was nervous, and I wasn’t sure how they were going to react to me, but he had decided that we weren’t going to hide the truth, and he didn’t want to hide me away this time.
There were several people in the main entrance of the Packhouse, and they fell silent as soon as we stepped into the building.
“I apologize for disappearing for so long,” Alpha Walker addressed them clearly, without a hint of nerves or uncertainty in his voice. “I had a rather pressing matter to attend to.”
I moved to stand behind him, shielding myself from the others because the way they were a
