War Wolf

Love in the time of war was a pretty tired trope.
Alexandra Nichols, Alex, please, is tired herself. She's exhausted from defending what she knows to the bottom of her soul to be indefensible. Wolf Council Rep Ken Larson. She knows she's not strong enough to take over a job she doesn't want, but neither does anyone else. In the face of too much… just too much, she flees, saying she's roaming for a mate, while actually searching for a new home. She's too old for a mate. If he hasn't shown up by now, he doesn't exist.
Gifford "Ford" Sterling has lost everything thanks to Ken Larson. He doesn't want Ken's job, but he's willing to take it on if it stops the deaths, destruction, and murders going on in the American Wolf Packs. He's spent years gathering support outside America from Wolves who are sick of Ken, but don't want to do his job of policing the world's Wolf Shifters. He's too busy to find a mate. That will have to wait.
Then one night he went to eat dinner…