Chapter 31

Ashton's POV I already knew my father was mind-linking my mother, warning her about what the Council rep was allegedly about to do. If Damien thought I was just going to stand by and let that happen, he was insane. I stepped toward the gate, my voice cutting through the tension as I started shouting orders. I watched as Oliver and Henry leapt effortlessly over the eleven-foot gate like it was nothing. “Tim,” I barked, “call Council Member Sean Paul. Let him know that his assistant is here, inside my pack, trying to carry out the illegal orders of another Alpha. Make it clear, I won’t allow it.” I didn’t pause. “Ask him if the Council has started breaking the very laws they swore to uphold. And tell him this: if he allows this assistant to lay so much as a finger on any of the women I’m protecting, then I’m going to war with Blackwood. I expect him here within the hour to explain himself.” I narrowed my eyes, my voice like steel. “And if she is here to do what I think she is, I want her