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Addom’s eyes glance down toward where I’m sitting.

“The bond is absolutely necessary. These Alphas are so different, so disparate. The only chance that the mission has for success is for them to be joined as a true pack.”

Although he doesn’t say it, it’s clear that I’m to be the connection that joins them together.

I’m still not sure what this will involve, but I have some idea. My eyes stray over to Lily. She is looking at me in a concerned way.

That’s not good.

Addom turns toward Kane.

“Brother Kane, as an Alpha of the central ruins, you are the leader of this pack by default. So I put it to you: When shall the ritual of binding be held?”

I hear Kane move behind me.

“The sooner the better,” his voice rumbles through the old theater. “It shall be done this very night.”

CHAPTER 26: KANE

I perch atop the roof of the theater and look to the western sky. The horizon is smeared red with the blood of the setting sun, stretching long shadows from the packs of Alphas filing out of the theater into the avenue below.

They will return home for their brief evening repasts, only to gather again in the Great Hall for tonight’s ceremony.

Tonight I will be bound to the Outsider omega, along with the other two Alphas.

I pick her out among the crowd below. Lily is leading her by the arm.

A presence appears beside me, looking down.

It is Hasker. He is Addom’s pack brother and Lily’s mate. He was also my sister Talia’s mate many years ago before she was killed. In our youth, we were best friends. Then I started roaming the Zone alone.

Together, we watch our two females divorce themselves from the throng and move off in another direction, toward the old hotel.

“The arrangements have been made,” Hasker says. “Lily will take your omega to the hot baths so that she may make the necessary ablutions in preparation for the ritual.

I merely grunt in acknowledgement.

I wish Hasker would leave me to my solitude. I want to be alone with my thoughts.

Hasker chuckles.

“You spend too much time alone with your thoughts,” he says as if reading my mind.

I turn toward him wide-eyed. Can he really read me that well?

Hasker simply smiles and rests his heavy fist atop my shoulder in a brotherly gesture.

“Kane, what is troubling you?”

The surprise falls from my face, replaced by tension and darkness, I turn my face back toward the ground below. The crowd has mostly wandered off now. Sloane and Lily have disappeared from sight.

I feel a slight twinge of concern, not being able to see my omega, not knowing exactly where she is. I suppress the feeling. It angers me that I should feel so protective of her.

Hasker’s question still hangs in the air.

And I just let it hang there. He already knows the answer anyway.

Hasker lets out a gruff sigh.