ALPHA RYAN POV
The incessant beeping wore on my nerves. I was becoming accustomed to awakening annoyed. This time, I immediately knew the beeping was from my hospital machines. I remembered everything that had led me to that point, and the most recent was confessing to Councilman Hartt that the others and I had murdered Carissa Carter.
As I lay there, strapped down as though I were some violent criminal, I reflected on the events in vivid detail, and everything continued to come back to one person.
This was the most logical answer to our sudden rise in rogue attacks and the brutal retaliation against the four of us.
Carter!
I needed to calm myself this time when I presented my case to the Elders and Council. They needed to see that I wasn’t irrational or that my wolf wasn’t slipping i
