Chapter 141

• Calum sat there, stunned by the information dumped on him in the last hour. Never in his life could he imagine some of the things they told him. Then again, he had been chained to a wall, so he supposed the rest wasn’t so far from unbelievable. The alpha of this clan, from his grandfathers’ time, had quite clearly been insane, and since then the depravity had spread through the generations like cancer.
• If Calum had been anyone else, they would have broken his friends out of their chains and got out of here fast, leaving the alliance to come in and clean up this atrocity. There were complications to doing just that. Firstly, he wasn’t ever able to walk away when others needed his help, even if they didn’t know they did, and this clan clearly needed help. Secondly, Shaelan was his mate, he knew that for sure now, and he’d marked her as such.
• There was no other explanation for the range of emotions he went through being near her. The lecture he gave Devin not too long-ago kept flashing through his mind. He’d ridden him hard for marking Rayne when she was unaware, and now he’d done the same damn thing. Yes, she had asked him to mark her so she carried his scent for a few days, but what he’d done, that was never leaving. In fact, if he had his way, he’d be renewing his scent on her frequently. Which brought him to another snag, she had just found out about her own heritage… adding a lifelong mate to that may not go over well right now. How did he find out where she stood with that?