[Present]
“Wait…” Caleb said, interrupting Ashleigh’s story. “Axel actually tried to unite the packs?”
Ashleigh smiled and nodded.
“Wow,” Caleb chuckled.
He thought back to a few different conversations. Ideas tossed back and forth. Some accusations, judgments, and assumptions. That was how he and Axel had developed their friendship. They started at the bottom and worked their way up.
“We talked about it, just a little bit. It was after I went to Burning Ember,” he said. “As we planned our alliances and learned more about the packs already taken by Autumn. We talked about how much easier we could have made each other’s lives if we had just found a way to be united.”
