THE NEXT MORNING, ALEXIS woke to the sound of snarling in her ear. She sat bolt upright and tried to jump away from the snarling, finding in her panic that the snarling was coming from Noemi. The alpha had her head lowered and her tail raised, and each of her hairs was standing on end. Across from her was the alpha who had mocked Alexis the night before. He was in the same stance, each waiting for the other to make the first move. Alexis wouldn’t let Noemi murder another wolf, or she would seal her fate even faster.
Alexis wrapped her arms around Noemi’s chest and pulled the she-wolf back. As soon as her front paws left the ground, Noemi wriggled out of Alexis’s grip and cut her aggressive stance. The male alpha did the same and backed away a few steps. Noemi, angry that she had been inte
