RUTH DIDN’T HURRY SO we didn’t either. No one, it seemed, wanted to prevent the teenager from stealing the limelight for herself.
“In a few minutes, you’ll meet my cousins,” Z informed the crowd. Despite the fact there were neighboring alphas aplenty mixed in among our pack mates, everyone had fallen silent. The Acostas wanted to hear what Z had to tell us and the neighbors respected our pack enough to follow suit.
“But first,” Z added, “I was hoping you wouldn’t mind another naming announcement.”
Pride welled up in me so fast and powerful that I stumbled. Luke’s bound hand steadied me without jiggling the baby pressed up against his chest.
The human baby. My silent nudging had done its job. Ruth’s daughter had shifted out of her lupine fur.
I wasn’t the only one who noticed. “Careful
