Killian wants to take his mind off Brynn; his heart ached from the painful thoughts of her that felt like they would eat him alive.
All this time, she was right under his nose. The sources he had read as he investigated the Goldcrest pack showed that Alpha Ezra's only child had died, which is why he didn’t even bother at the time to look into her name.
And that was a grave mistake he made. What were the odds that she was alive and right under his roof? All the nights he had spent with her, both pleasant and unpleasant, all the secrets he told her, trusting her. He had tried to look over the fact that Brynn was from the Goldcrest pack, but this was worse; she shared the same blood as his sworn enemy, and she knew all this time that he couldn’t forgive.
He hated the tight feeling in his c
