You know how it is for us."
"He wasn't one of our kind, was he?"
"No, just a lover and friend. Was a friend. Then he got the hots for a biology teacher at a high school." Aimee growled at the last.
Not wanting to upset her cousin further with the discussion of her former lover, Cassie asked, "Didn't you know about the pack living here?"
"No. I never ran across them. Not as big as Portland is. And many of them live outside of the city limits."
Cassie nodded. "Here I thought it was the she-wolf whose scent Carver and Axel Ash had run across in Forest Park."
"No, probably me. But I'd run into Irving and Tynan at a convenience store and overheard them talking about taking over a pack and how they'd picked up a woman who wasn't pliable.
They'd murdered her, Cassie. Left her body in the woods. That's when they saw me in a security mirror, listening to them from another aisle. I got out of there as fast as I could, but they followed me.
