Rick's POV 

As it turned out, my regular pack doctor wasn't available. He was on some type of sabbatical, studying the effects of the blue moon on our kind. 

Fantastic. It was just my luck that a blue moon happened to be passing through around the time of my attack. 

"Ok, so, who's covering for him?" I asked his receptionist, with growing impatience. I had only called the doctor because Alexis had insisted, and I didn't want her to worry about me.  ...