Mary's POV "You want to attack Montana again in three weeks?" Theodore stared at me like I had grown a second head. The emergency council meeting I had called was not going well. Every pack leader looked skeptical at best and openly hostile at worst. "Three weeks gives us time to treat wounded, recruit reinforcements, and plan a better assault," I explained, trying to sound more confident than I felt. "Archon Shade says The Covenant is planning a counter offensive. We need to strike first before they organize." "Or we need to fortify our territories and prepare to defend them," Alpha Reed argued. "We cannot keep throwing wolves at Montana and hoping for different results. We tried that yesterday and lost fifteen people." "We lost fifteen people because our intelligence was incomplete

