The dinner with the Elders.

ALEXAKIS

As I grabbed Claire's hand and led her out of the place, I aimed to find a place where we could be seated and spend some quality time together. I might have let us move over to her room, but I knew that servants still trooped in and out of the place now and then. What I wanted was total calmness for both of us. I decided to move us into the woods where we can just sit on a tree branch or a clearing and chat away to make me forget the pressure back at the house with the way Luna Lisa and Nathaniel had gone all out with each other.

"Alpha Alex." A young girl of no more than ten years old greeted me.

I was taken aback by the way it seemed that people had chosen to attach the Alpha title to my name even when nothing has been finalized yet. Perhaps it was not just the council members who had made up their minds to instate me as the Alpha. Perhaps the pack members had decided in their hearts who they wanted. I knew how sad it would have been for Nathaniel if he were to hear how t