***RICHARD POV*** And then there's this asshole. Yes, I mean Bartholomew. I can at least acknowledge that I'm a jackass, so why couldn't he? After all, he stole my girl and my powers. I should be the Phoenix wolf, not Bartholomew. I should have Mira marked as my own, not Bartholomew. The whole walk home from the pretend Alpha's hospital suite, I was just stewing. Everything I ever wanted was taken from me, and it was all Bartholomew's fault. "You know," my useless wolf decided to chime in, "you're not really the alpha of this pack, and despite your best efforts, it's not going to go as well as you think." "Why in the world would you think that, Idol?" I argued back with him. "We've got a whole crew ready to rumble. We're going to take down Barth

