Alpha Roan.
My phone buzzes again. Tenth time this morning. I don't need to look to know it's some elder pissing their pants. The news has spread, of course. The entire country now knows I executed an Alpha.
The law is very clear: killing an Alpha unlawfully is a capital offense. Therefore, my pack is holding its breath, waiting for us to fix it, like there’s some neat solution you can box up and hand to the Apex circle.
The punishment of ending an Alpha is to be arrested and clawed to death by his own pack members according to the laws of the Apex circle. They can’t touch me directly, of course…so that’s what makes the whole thing complicated.
I step into the shower and turn the dial all the way to hot. But as the steam rises, so does the image of Meluna. I flip the dial to cold and
