Angel POV For the next three days Pete and I were to act like Alpha and Luna, Maria slept soundly, she had even slept from a bath. Max sat watching over her by her side. He barely ate enough, had it not been for Anita who put food in front of him and refused to keep quiet before he ate, he would probably just as well have done without. The worst thing about being able to stand in for Maria was that I had to be the one who comforted and performed the farewell rituals for the mourning for the wolves we had lost to the fight. Neither the message from the captain that he had got his superiors to stop the hunt, nor the newspaper stories about it did help my mood. What comforted me the most were my puppies. There were both unaware of what had happened, they had fallen asleep from it all! The

