Perrin I don’t know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn’t this. Our pack had gone all out for the Welcome Ceremony and I was definitely impressed. The ballroom of our pack house (yes, we still had a ballroom. We didn’t actually have balls in it anymore… parties, I think, is probably more appropriate) was cleaned to the nines. A platform had been raised at one end of the hall for seats of our highest pack members, my father included. Even though I was his son, I wouldn’t be on the platform. I wanted the Alpha Title badly, but I still had to fight for it. Standing on the platform with my father would be in poor taste. Pack members and high pack elders lined the walls of the ballroom. All challengers were to wait outside. I stood in line with Jack, Toby, and Skyler. Jack was the

