The walk back to the Pack House felt like it was taking a lifetime. The time was dragging on and on, which was letting my mind run wild. There was nothing to distract me. My mind was jumping from thinking about Blake dying, to the overwhelming responsibilities of becoming the Alpha, to wondering if Jasmine really had anything to do with what happened to Blake, despite even my wolf now thinking that there wasn't anyway that she could have administered the posion, at the very least she couldn't have today. Then I was tihnking about how scared I was to admit that I was now the Alpha, and to address the entire Pack to explain that I was now their leader. The person that they always saw as an outcast, was now meant to rule them. Make all of their decisions for them.
I swallowed hard, starting
