ELLA He started by explaining that he wasn’t just any werewolf—he was an Alpha from the Sevill-Turner pack who had been tormented by members of the Blackthorn pack in the past. He had lost loved ones during the altercation and was the last Alpha standing when he decided it was time to do something about the dire situation. He left his town and his people to come to Blackthorn territory. This revelation about him having a pack didn’t match the story he had given me earlier about preferring to be alone, but I decided to listen until the end. Perhaps it was his way of throwing me off the subject because he wasn’t comfortable talking about it, and I understood that. Now that he was willing to divulge information about himself, the sensible thing to do was to listen as he spoke. “When I c

