After they left, Sophie looked up at me with tears in her eyes.
"Why are you helping us? No one else ever has."
I knelt to her level. "Because you deserve help. Because every wolf in this pack deserves to be safe. And because if I don't stand up for you, I don't deserve to be Luna."
She hugged me suddenly, fiercely. Over her head, I caught Susan's expression, something like hope mixed with disbelief.
How long had they been invisible? How long had the pack failed them?
Too long.
News of the omega situation spread through the pack like wildfire.
By lunch, I'd received five angry calls from high-ranking families demanding I drop the investigation. By dinner, Jackson Carver himself showed up at the Pack House, flanked by two Council members I didn't recognize.
Damien was in his office
