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Saena hadn't expected his compliance, but of course, he had no choice really. The Phoenix Maplewood queen would not allow him to settle here no matter how set he was on it. The threat to their prey supply was an indirect threat to her devoted followers and, most importantly, to any children she might bear following her heat. Perhaps she would not bear any, but that wasn't an assumption she was willing to make, not when their hypothetical lives could be at stake.

"You misunderstand," she informed the male. "You are not welcome here. There is no room for you." The prey supply cannot sustain us all, she almost told him, but she naively believed he should innately understand that. He wasn't a wolf worth his salt if he didn't understand the prey that kept them all alive. "You will go elsewhere," she commanded, "or we will kill you if we must."

It was no empty threat. She would lead Phoenix Maplewood against him if he sought to dig in his heels. They could not afford to lose prey to a fourth pack, no matter if there was a wetland between them or not.