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growling up at Dell, ready to attack.
    “Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Dell, Alpha of the North American pack. And this...” Dell held his arms out as twenty wolves stepped from the concealment of the forest, circling Kya, Dell, Theron, Kyler, and Tyler. “…is my pack.”
    Kya stood in the center of the circle of Dell’s wolves with Theron and his pack just in front of her. Staring from one pack to the other, she was unsure what to do.
    Dell smiled down at Kya as Briggs stepped out of the forest and walked up to her side. In wolf form, he was nearly twice her size and much larger than any wolf in Theron’s pack. That didn’t deter Reiner who bared his teeth at the much larger Briggs. Briggs completely ignored him and crossed to stand in front of Kya putting himself between her and Theron’s pack. She couldn’t even see over his massive gray frame.
    “This is my brother, Briggs. He’s our pack Beta. Theron, do shift, we have so much to discuss.”
    Theron turned his head to look at Reiner than instantly shifted. He rose off his knees in the snow not caring that he was naked. “I’ve come for my property,” Theron bit out in a gravely tone, his cold blue eyes never wavering from Dell. Briggs growled and Theron looked down at him, sneering at the wolf before looking up to Dell. “She belongs to me.”
    Dell laughed and shook his head, “Pack members are not property Theron. They are family.”
    Theron licked his dry lips, “She belongs to me, and I’m either leaving with her or with her corpse .”
    Briggs slowly stalked toward Theron, a rumbling deep in his chest. At his approach, Reiner stepped forward and snarled viscously.
    “Briggs. We need a moment.” Dell spoke calmly, his tone soothing Kya’s fear that all hell was seconds away from breaking loose.
    Briggs stopped his approach but kept his eyes intently on Reiner.
    “Perhaps we should leave the choice to her. It’s what I would do for a member of my pack.” Dell turned his head to stare down at Kya. “Kya, I would welcome you into my pack if you were so inclined, or you may return to Theron and his…pack? Choose.”
    Theron’s eyes doubled in size and his mouth dropped open, “She can’t just remove herself from my pack. I must decide!”
    Dell turned back to Theron, “Speaking of deciding. How did Kya become a member of your pack? Who were her parents?”
    “I-I-I, well uhhh…” Theron stumbled over his words knowing that to admit that she wasn’t born to his pack was excuse enough for her to be allowed to leave, but to admit so would be to admit that he’d been going against the shifter law for which the punishment was death. Theron also knew he couldn’t admit who Kya’s parents were, as he honestly had no idea, but he knew they weren’t shifters and that’s exactly what Dell was getting at.
    “As I said, Kya choose.” Dell looked down at her again and nodded, letting her know she would be safe with his pack.
    Kya didn’t even look back at Theron before she walked over to stand behind Dell. Briggs looked over his shoulder at her before turning back to re-engage his staring match with Reiner.
    “It seems she has chosen her pack.” Dell smirked at Theron, who stood red-faced and naked in the middle of the clearing.
    “Keep the bitch! We don’t need her.” Theron turned on his heal to leave, shifting back to his wolf form as he walked away.
    “Theron!” Dell yelled before the wolf and his pack had a chance to run from the clearing. “We will need to discuss your violations of our laws sometime in the near future.” Dell smiled down at the angry wolf, “The very near future.”
    Theron snapped his head away, snorting as he bounded deep into the trees, Kyler and Tyler following closely on his heels. Only Reiner hung back. Still deadlocked in his glaring match with Briggs, Reiner took his eyes off Briggs to stare over at Kya. He licked his muzzle devilishly before turning from Briggs and following Theron into the