Alpha Roan. I step into the room with Dr. Madeline. At the end of the first year of my search for a doctor, I found her in Ethiopia right when I was about to lose hope. I was drowning in a dozen lies and half-hearted cures until I stumbled on her name in a research paper. It took everything I had to get her to leave her home. Promises, threats, favors pulled from every pocket of influence. She didn’t want to come to Wolf Groove, didn’t want to leave Africa for the cold politics of the European packs. But I convinced her. I always convince people eventually. I built the largest medical wing in the heart of the state and hired the best of Europe doctors to work with her. So that one day…one day, she would have a different answer about my mother’s case. Therefore, if Madeline says she has

