Who Killed Our Alpha?

nd me at three in the morning, and

ost on the steel shelves and told myself I was checking the locks. My wolf knew better. He had been pacing since the

A thread of it under

very wolf in the Blackthorn Pack signed at every full moon. I opened it to the last page. My na

behind the salt bins. If I burned it, the smell would be gone.

s quiet as you

t in one hand and her coat half buttoned. The light went f

osed after mid

mma was down here an hour ago. He stood right where you

he fish. It was her, clean and sharp, like cold water over sto

er wolves describe it. I had never be

go back to b

me the

N

mine on the wet paper, and the touch went up my arm like a match to dry grass. Her grey eye

ning evidenc

urning

e Gamma already smells resin." She pulled the page from my hand and h

s a t

ow what happens to an enforcer caught masking his scent before an audit? Doran will

ts, and one badly set wrist, and she had never once asked about the night the old Alpha died

what this

know the Gamma keeps the ledger, and I know he has been keeping it close since th

igne

go." She said it flat, no heat in it. "I know bec

ands. I flexed them and heard

ook at the le

brother's na

e kind of boy who flinched when a door slammed. He had been in the pack house since t

igned it

night the Alpha died. He was out past the boundary marker, and he saw something he has never told me about, and since tha

been forgi

here is a difference, and if you are going to turn me in for it, do it

k answer, the answer an enforcer gives. Instead I

much. A small tighte

d. "The one with

the resin jar and set it back behind the salt. "If Doran smells wolfsbane on me, it will not

nt ver

never touch

auditor finds it, he will trace it, and he will find the last wolf who handle

off the shelf, and put it inside her coat, against her ribs, w

you doin

l smell wolfsbane on me now, and he will assume it is because I am a healer who handle

now what you

gloves." She picked up her flashlight. "Walk me to the clinic. If we are seen together, i

cked the skin over my knuckles. She was

n white line over the water. She walked fast with her hands in her pockets, and I kept half a step behind her, and

door she stopp

ge. On you. He stood in the freezer and asked me if the enforcer h

ied to

again, and he will ask the Beta, and he will ask Maggie, and one of them will tel

find out what y

across her face and her grey eyes and the strong line of her jaw, and I f

n waiting four years for someone in this pack to