The Forgotten Heiress novel Chapter 37

The finality in his words let Jessica know that that was all she was getting on the subject, and she was satisfied with it-for now. "Where is she?"

"Somewhere safe, it's not a good idea to bring her here."

"Why not?"

"To bring her here would be to bring trouble." He eyed her up and down. "And trust me I have plenty of that at the moment."

Jessica rolled her eyes. "What's the Council?"

Nick scrubbed his face with his hands. This was the part he'd been dreading. He motioned for her to take a seat while he tried to figure out the best way to explain things to her-and just how much to tell her.

"The Council's main responsibility is to keep the peace between packs. There are six Council members. Each member used to be an Enforcer before the Council was formed."

He explained to her that after the murder of their last ruler, the Council was created to keep war from breaking out between packs. Many Alphas wanted the power afforded to the ruler of all the packs in America and they would be willing to declare war to one another to achieve the ultimate status.

With the advancement of technology, it was feared that so many deaths could lead to the discovery of their people. So the most powerful packs made an agreement, their enforcers would enforce the law.

"We Alpha's can be very prideful." He told her wryly. "And we don't like taking orders from others."

"But isn't that what you used to do, you used to take orders from the last ruler?" Jessica cut in.

And this is going to be the tricky part, he thought.

"The Lykaon Alpha was the exception to the rule. He was the most powerful of our kind. Through his veins ran the blood of the first werewolf, the Arcadian King Lykaos. There were very few who could resist his power."

"Lykaon, as in the Greek myth?"