Zaira’s POV
“Huh?!” My mother and I chorused at the news. I glanced at my mates and they didn’t seem surprised about it, which made sense since they would naturally know about such things.
“A dead body?” My mother stiffened beside me. I glanced at her and noticed her gripping her clothes under the table.
‘Why is she so nervous?’ I wondered, and then it hit me.
My mother probably didn’t hear the Alpha well. She probably only picked up the ‘dead body’ part of the sentence and assumed it was Messenger Rowan. I felt a bit happy that I wasn’t the only one seriously affected by our secret.
“So a dead body was found at the border? But it was identified as an individual from ANOTHER pack?” I said enunciating words for my mother to pick up on it.
She did and immediately calmed down. She threw
