"So that's what this has all been about?" I asked. "Some kind of pack superiority or whatever?"

She nodded slowly. "Exactly. All those deaths? All those missing wolves? That's what it's all been about. The systematic elimination of anyone seen as unsuitable, or unwilling to go along with Connolly's big plan. And there were others, too, those of his own pack who didn't share his extreme views and refused to go along with what was essentially genocide."

"So he killed them, ...