[Derrick] When Queen Bellamy called me in to draw again, I handed off my duties to my second in command and headed out. Ever since I got my team, she’d leaned on me more for a lot of things. My yearly reviews came out pretty good and she said I was on track to reach my goal. Within the next four or five years, I’d be lieutenant of this area. My second in command was selected specifically with this goal in mind. Craig was an ex-pack and he’d worked for the Alpha of his pack before he got kicked out. I picked him because he was very logical and level-headed. Sometimes I needed someone to stop me from my crazier tendencies. Once I had all of that silver taken out of my skin, I realized that it made me less mentally stable. The lycan gene meant that silver didn’t bother me as much anymore

