POV: Principal Lear

The emergency Council session convened at dawn, forty-eight hours after Ronan's challenge.

I sat at the head of the conference table surrounded by pack leaders whose territories had been affected by this semester's chaos. Alpha Vincent Capulet, still grieving his daughter. Alpha Marcus Montague, who'd disowned Ronan publicly but privately supported his challenge. King Alexander of the Southern Alliance, recently humiliated by his son's defection.

And representatives from ...