NARRATIVE POV Delta Allan Price steps into Alpha Rollings' office after being summoned to report immediately. As much as the Delta wanted to remind the Alpha of his place, he thought it best to lie low for now. The council was swarming, and he wasn’t ready for them to find out about Hilary and her miraculous survival. He needed things to calm down first, so everything would be readily accepted as truth. Now was the time to start leaving bread crumbs, so that the annoyance of that rogue pack was behind it. Only that would get his father off his back about the change of plans without his approval first. Once he took over the Cherry Ridge territory, he contemplated turning things around and selling out his overbearing father. Hilary had many great ideas, and she might be on to something. It

