ISABELLE
It was strange to be home again after all that had happened. On the one hand, everything was normal - the furniture, the art on the walls ... but on the other, everything was different.
And not only because of the realization that my mother and Garrett were, in fact, psychopathic assholes: the people around the pack house were different, too. Until a few months earlier, when I had come home for my birthday and Reiner was still Alpha, people were normal. The pack house was full of men, women, children, half-breeds, and the human or other races' mates of our packmates: now, however, there were only soldiers, all strictly male and pureblooded.
Garrett had justified this by saying it was for the pack's safety: with all the rival packs that had 'turned' against him since he had be
