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“Well, that’s nice to hear,” he said. “I was starting to worry that you’d let the bond win.”
“Not a chance,” I said.
“You’re really okay with the whole taking down the king thing?” he asked.
“What do I have to lose?” I asked.
“Everything,” he said. “Don’t do it, Lola.”
“I already said I would.”
“We could run. I’d run with you,” he offered.
“I’m done running,” I said. “And you need to be done running too. I know you’ve been through hell, but you must forgive yourself and let yourself have some joy. You don’t have to forget what happened. You don’t even have to forgive Wolf Creek. But you should stop casting yourself as the bad guy here. Nothing that happened was your fault.”
“I had the mark, and I left my pack. I put myself first.” He shook his head. “It cost me everything.”
“So, then you rebel by joining a feral pack where the whole motto is every wolf for themselves?” I raised my eyebrows. “You have to admit by now that you formed a community. You brought all those people together. You are an alpha. It just looks different than you thought it would.”
“If I stayed…” Alec looked down.
“If you stayed, you’d be dead too. And maybe all the shifters at your camp would be too. They needed a place to go. They needed a leader. They found you,” I said.
“This isn’t about me,” he looked up, locking his eyes on mine. “This is about you.”
“Alright. Fine. I’m going to help Spencer because it’s the right thing to do. Then, I’m going to kick my old alpha to the curb. If nothing else comes of it, I will break down that barrier and weaken Wolf Creek enough that they can’t do what they did to your pack ever again.”
“It’s the toxin,” he said.
“And you have an antidote,” I reminded him.
He chuckled. “Yeah, I do.”
“Why don’t you go work on that with Star? I think Sheila, Malcom, and Kyle have enough planned for helping me train.”
Alec’s gaze moved to somewhere behind me and a momentary scowl crossed his face.
I turned to see Spencer standing in the entryway. “You’re not counting on that group of misfits to help prepare you for breaking into the king’s estate, are you?”
“I don’t see any other options,” I pointed out.
He poured a cup of coffee, then lifted his chin toward Alec. “The witch wants you downstairs.”
“Go,” I said. “I got this.”
Alec hesitated, then stood. There was so much unsaid between us, but I didn’t think either of us was clear headed enough to figure out how to say the things we needed to.
Spencer sat down next to me. “You remind me of your mom, you know that?”
I glanced over at him. “I’m not sure that’s the compliment you think it is.”
“I’ll admit, I don’t know what she’s like now, but you should have seen her before you were born.”
“Before you abandoned her?” I countered.
“I made my choice. Your mother made hers. She must have known she was pregnant, otherwise I don’t think she’d have left. She would have stayed and fought with me,” Spencer said.
“Then she’d be dead too, just like your friends who helped you,” I said.
