CADE My father's will had been read in the presence of my brothers and the entire pack council about a week after his death. In his will, it was his wish that my brothers and I got to decide among ourselves who was to be the Alpha. All of us would be Alpha's but only one of us would bear the title. As I sat there, listening to the lawyer speak, I reflected on his I had never given a thought to who would be Alpha after my father passed. And really why would I? My father, strict and stern yet loving, had always been there ever since I was a little boy running around the estate with my brothers in diapers. I had expected him to still be there for many years to come. To me he had become as much a fixture in my life as the pack itself. Now he was gone. Gone to a place where neither I or an

