Louis I looked up in anticipation as I heard footfalls outside in the corridor. I expected Daphne to join me for lunch. I was flooded with intense displeasure when Pilar Larkin came sashaying into my dining room like she had every right to be there. Honestly, the Larkins were overstaying their welcome. The Alpha had given me his sob story about how his poor little pack was being victimized by rogue attacks and pleaded for me to send my military forces to support him. Which I would have been happy to do if he wasn’t a lying sack of s.hit. He had a very robust defense force of his own, which he was trying to hide from me, and my sources in the area said that there hadn’t been any rogue attacks in months. So the question was, what exactly was Larkin angling for? Until I had answe