"But Leighton will have evidence too. And he's desperate. Desperate wolves do dangerous things."
As if summoning danger with those words, a loud knock interrupted us.
A young warrior burst in, breathless. "Alpha! There's someone at the border. Says she needs to speak with Sophia immediately."
"Who?" Garrett demanded.
"She won't give her name. But Alpha, she's hurt badly. And she says…" The warrior swallowed. "She says Leighton is working with the Blood Moon Cult."
The temperature in the room seemed to drop to freezing.
"Blood Moon Cult?" Helena whispered. "That's impossible. They were destroyed two hundred years ago."
Kael stood up slowly. "No. They weren't destroyed. Just driven into hiding."
"You know about them?" Garrett asked.
"I fought them. During the war that led to my exil
