"Councilman Aldren. Please."
Kael watched the older wolf tried again to shake him off. Evan Aldren offered a stiff smile, pretending he simply wished to linger in the great hall, but Kael did not move. He matched the man's steps easily, keeping close enough that Aldren could not slip away without being noticed.
After what they had learned the night before, none of them were willing to take chances.
Evan Aldren had killed his own children. To kill his own children and plot against his own mate, just to prevent a future child from becoming the Dark Master's bride was absolutely abhorrent.
It made Evan Aldren as bad as the dark master who had taken thousands of lives, himself. If he wanted to the dark master to not have a bride, then he should have simply avoided making his mate pregnant! What gave him the right to torture her! The man was not fit to be an Elder and a councilman...
