***MICHAEL POV*** Damn, was this all these guys had? I hadn't felt any mindlink that would have suggested that Alpha James was having a problem, so he must have been holding his own. The only thing he wanted to warn me about was that it was standing CW policy that no one was to be killed on pack property. I didn't know what he had planned, but if it was working, who was I to question that? I did have to hand it to Richard, though: he knew how to pick a bunch of big ugly bastards to work for him and do his bidding and it sure looked like they were giving them their all, but my sheer strength seemed to have been getting the job done. All told, I faced nine wolves head to head. The first one tried to face me head-on and use my body weight against me. I did a few bait

