"Clanless?" Riley echoed the word with a throaty growl, and not the pleasant kind that he usually uttered when he was around Tao. There was no lust in that sound. There was passion, yes, but that passion was for the duty that Riley had to follow the ancient rules of his pack that transcended even clan. Clanless. Just saying the word made Riley want to spit, let alone thinking about it.
"Where is it?" The shifter asked, raising a hand to squeeze Tao's upper arm. "Did anyone see? Any of the cubs?" He would have continued, except that all at once there was a very interesting expression on Tao's. "What are you talking about?" He asked, feeling the hair stand up on the back of his neck, "I know what I have to do. A clanless trespassed on my lands. I have to kill him." His mouth felt dry. "But, what did you have in mind?"