Conner POV Atlas watched as El strolled off into the woods, she was just walking, a pair of shorts and a tee-shirt on over her swimmers, and a simple pair of flat sandals. She didn’t look too happy, no smile and was not with Marlo and his friends either. They were all just getting back from the lake, pulling up in their trucks, and getting out. He’d just pulled up himself, been out at meetings all morning in Salt Lake City, he’d left that morning at 5am, to spend a few hours with his grandfather and the previous unit, watching them hold meetings with affiliated packs and with the humans they dealt with. It had been a very quiet drive. Adam still wasn’t talking to him. He’d gotten reprimanded by not only his father but by the current Alpha for calling the man’s stepdaughter a tease and a