It was mid-afternoon, and I was poring over financial reports in my office.
My assistant walked in carrying a cup of coffee and struck up a casual gossip session out of the blue. "Hey, Willow, have you heard? There's huge news coming out of Europe lately!"
I didn't even look up from my papers. "What news?"
"It's about that Hood Pack you hear people talk about! Total chaos over there right now! That pack was on top of the world not long ago, right? Well, their Alpha canceled the Luna ceremony for some random female assistant, then got publicly rejected when he tried to hold the ceremony later. Total humiliation. Then a whole bunch of scandals broke about how poorly he managed the pack. The whole pack's falling apart, and the elders have been breathing down his neck trying to oust him eve
