{Jedediah’s P.O.V.} Two months later It was hard to let go of the assumptions I made about how I would reclaim the Alpha title of Red Mountain. These days, it was difficult to sit inside Scanlan’s … well, I should say my office. Everything just left a bad taste in my mouth. I felt continuously frustrated that things didn’t turn out the way I wanted—no, the way I needed them to. After Scanlan was taken into custody and Dorian left suddenly to tend to Allie’s early labor, everyone else that remained went inside of the packhouse. My birth father, the rightful Alpha of this pack, took back the reins only to give them to me the next day. Even though we had petitioned the Elders of Colorado to allow me to challenge Scanlan for

