The weeks that followed my outburst were quite strange, I felt as if everything was moving in fast-forward. Clyde and Chelsea had forgiven me and were acting like two horny teenagers, which, paradoxically enough, made me feel nauseous and tender at the same time. Once I was up and about, Clyde had asked me for a chance to restore his broken honour on the training ground, which I enthusiastically granted. At first I'd even decided to let him win, but he'd provoked me so much about the fact that Duncan and I weren't completely bonded yet that I'd abandoned my good intentions and made him bite the dust without any qualms, much to the delight of the onlookers who'd gathered when they'd heard about our challenge. The pack had ignored my setbacks and pampered me like a child prodigy who had come

