The week after the meeting with Marcus went by faster than I expected and things around the pack started feeling different not just because of the alliance but because people seemed to have hope again like maybe we weren't all going to die fighting rogues and that shift changed everything about how the days felt.

I woke up early one morning to the sound of voices outside my window and when I looked out I saw Jax and Elias talking to some guy I didn't recognize and he had this urgent look on his ...