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It was a gamble. If things went wrong I would lose everything. My freedom, my pack and the future Talia and I were meant to have.
But she was worth the risk and I was more than willing to roll the dice.
Chapter Nineteen
TALIA
The news Max’s death had been a homicide rocked Galen to his core and sent him reeling back to the moment he received the call about his father’s death. I recognized the haunted look in his eyes. The pain etched into the lines of his face.
I’d helped nurse his spirit back to health, helped him through the grieving process once, I could do it again.
But we didn’t have the time or luxury to work through it the way we had the first time. Galen needed to come to grips with the information and his new reality sooner rather than later, because I needed him at my side.
Galen agreed to be my consort.
He put his trust in me, in my plan to find the demon goddess, and put his life on the line.
The clock was ticking.
“You heard him.” I straightened my spine and stood toe to toe with the Deofol alpha. “He’s made his choice.”
“I heard him, I just don’t believe him.” Bjorn shook his head and spat on the floor by Galen’s feet. “If someone murdered my father, I wouldn’t rest until I’d spilled every last drop of blood in their body.”
Galen’s muscles tensed, his body jerking as he struggled to keep his wolf in check.
“My consort and I will return to my room.” I took Galen by the hands and led him out of the exam room. “Valerie, we’re leaving.”
I wasn’t sure how to get to the building my room was in from the clinic. I should have paid better attention to my surroundings when Valerie escorted me to the training facility. Then I wouldn’t have had to rely on her so much.
Of course, my surroundings were covered in snow and apart from the meeting house, the buildings all looked the same. Galen and I were stuck with Valerie.
At least for the time being.
We bundled up in layers of cold weather gear Valerie brought for us and followed her to the main living quarters.
A storm was on its way and moving fast. Flurries had already started to fall and blizzard conditions were expected within the hour. Our plans to track down the demon wolf goddess would have to wait until the snow storm moved out to sea the following day. Weather changed on a dime and there was no use fighting mother nature.
