The wolves kept their tight-knit ring but no one stepped forward.
"No one?" Justa demanded as he stalked and looked each in the eye. "Jared?" he growled.
The wolf in question whimpered and wriggled against the dirt, rolling over onto his back and lifting his head to expose his throat. "No, Alpha."
Justa raised a furry brow. "I'm not Alpha," he gestured to Alice, "That's your leader. Not me."
Alice scoffed. She could lead wolves but she couldn't deny Justa was a force unlike any other. "No, Justa. You should be Alpha."
Justa chuckled a dark raspy growl. "I only need to be alpha in one place, Alice," he scolded.
Alice raised her head to meet his eyes. "That's the one place I won't yield," she challenged him.
The watching wolves coughed and looked away.
"Now that we've settled that
