Monica POV
It was time and I could feel the nerves rolling off of Sophia. I grabbed her hand and promised her that everything would be okay and we made our way to the front gates. I was surprised, although maybe I shouldn't have been, that the warriors at the gates were ready to abandon their posts and fight with us. Under normal circumstances I would have been ashamed of those men, but these circumstances were different and this was difficult for them to understand. Their Alpha wasn't just betraying his allies, in working with the hunters, he was betraying his entire species. Of course his warriors knew that the hunters wouldn't hesitate to come back and kill them one day. As far as they knew, their Alpha was now a lost cause. And to be fair to them, if my father had ever worked with hun
