WILLOW The following morning, I walked into the kitchen and immediately stopped dead. “What the hell?” A large chunk of what appeared to be an animal’s hindquarters was sitting directly on the kitchen counter. Not on a tray. Not on a chopping board. Directly on the bloody countertop. A sizable pool of blood had collected beneath it, with thin red rivulets already creeping over the edge and running down the cabinet doors before dripping onto the tiled floor. I stared at the mess in disbelief. Seriously? Didn’t these werewolves have any common sense? Would it have killed Gamma Caleb to put the damn meat on a tray? Or, heaven forbid, something absorbent? I was still staring at the disaster when Lexie wandered into the kitchen. And judging by the ridiculously happy grin plastered

