August told Penelope she understood why she needed to go with Zagan. She needed to protect her mate and her pack who would be decimated if she stayed to fight. Zagan couldn't be stopped, according to Penelope. He couldn't be killed. Not yet anyway.
Penelope… August clenched her teeth. The powerful alyko who had supposedly made everyone from August's past forget about her. Why was a Winter alyko not powerful to take care of the vampire? And how had she even gotten on their pack land in the first place? How did she know precisely where August was? There were no answers for it. And she wasn't sure the questions mattered at this point anyway with what she was now facing.
