Connolly turned to me. "You have been charged with the attempted murder of our Alpha."
"Do I get a chance to plead my case?"
He ignored me, turning his back in favor of gazing out over the crowd. "Furthermore, you are charged with the murder of the maid assigned to your service, Miss Annecy Williams." He paused for effect, and the murmuring grew louder while I gaped at him in stunned silence. "Lastly, you are charged with conspiracy to destroy this pack by engineering the disappearance of a number of wolves, some of whom vanished during the course of the Full Moon Games."
"Wait a second!" I shouted over the growing rumbles of anger and outrage. "I didn't do any of that. I had nothing to do with those disappearances. And my maid? She was alive and well the last time I saw her. In fact
