Noah The faces of the pack looking back at me were friendly. Open and smiling wildly. They had welcomes me back with open arms just like everyone had said they would but inside I felt empty. Fleur had only been gone a few days and I felt her absence like someone had scooped my insides out. I knew how to be alpha; I had trained to take over this pack since I was born but without her, I felt adrift. Fleur was the only person that I was staying for. And everyone knew it. The pack might back me as alpha, but they knew why I was staying, and it wasn’t for them. No one would blame them if they wanted my cousin Louis for the job, least of all me. “Noah.” My fathers voice ripped apart my thoughts, his elbow sharp in my side. shaking myself I realised that I had totally missed him giving

