It was the afternoon of the day after Christmas. Cassie had spent most of the morning in Malekai’s home office doing video conferences with the council members and temporary leader of the Moon Valley Pack. Things had been fine until approximately nine months earlier when a large number of new members had been sworn into the pack. It was confirmed that, after that, was when Alpha James replaced all the ranking members of the pack with new ones who had just joined. That was a move that was unusual at best. The investigation was only beginning, but so far, all those ranking members had immediately been removed by the council as they felt the assault and abuse inflicted upon Garrette and Ruby was completely justified. Cassie had finally finished reading and replying to the last of the emails

