Nicky’s POV “Nick, go, I got her,” Bash said to me. I had to go take a run with the pack members of Wild Wind to solidify myself as their new Alpha. I knew most of them, having joined their pack last year. Which meant they knew me. I felt the surge of the mind link as I connected to all of them again, but this time as their Alpha. They were surprisingly quiet. No one was talking through it as we ran but I could feel their emotions. They were mixed with congratulations and condolences. It was a mutual understanding between me and them. They knew what this cost me but they knew it had to be done. Eric could not go on doing the things he did or treating people like he did. Emmett had to pay as well. As for the things he had done to Jordan, he got off easy. I ran my

