UNKNOWN FIRST PERSON POV Everyone knew who Thea Lyall was. She was the best at everything from an early age. All the girls wanted to be her. All the boys wanted to be with her. She was strong, confident, hard-working, gorgeous, and above all, she was kind. It was impossible not to like her. As time
But somehow, she sensed me. She wrote her phone number down on a piece of paper and dropped it. Was she saying she would help me too? The next day, Xavier wasn’t at school. Everyone was talking about what he’d done. That Thea exposed it, proved it, and got his father to punish him. He was going to
BACK TO THIRD PERSON POV The next day, Thursday, Mr. Garrity had a helper summon Thea to his apothecary shop when she got home from school. Thea came immediately with the triplets and four Delta guards in tow. “Alphas, Luna,” Mr. Garrity said. “I have some mock-ups to show you.” “Excellent.” “L
“I will play around with antidote deliveries,” Mr. Garrity said. “I may be able to make a vaccine. Let me play around with it.” “Everyone, please keep this between us for now,” Thea said. “We don’t want it leaking to other packs that we’re preparing for war. We don’t need anyone suspicious of us.”
The next day, Friday, Davie brought his first choice for the bar manager to interview with Thea. They met at the coffee shop in the village after school. “Luna,” Davie said when they walked into the coffee shop. Thea stood up from the table she secured. “This is Quinn Alden of High Tide Pack. Quinn
Quinn took another drink. “After meeting you,” Quinn said. “Getting a feel for you personally, your business instincts, seeing your taste, what’s important to you, I’m not just intrigued. I’m a believer. Davie told me I’d be impressed. I didn’t expect to be. I think he undersold you.” “Oh, thank y
Thea went with her guards to the garage, and they drove to the gates. A group of people stood just outside the entrance. She recognized some of them from the conversation at lunch earlier that week. She approached them, Delta team flanking her. “We brought our families,” one of the girls she recogn
“I can see to that,” Quinn said. “At some point, I may send people your way to interview for jobs,” Thea said. “People who have recently joined my pack. If they aren’t a good fit, I’ll understand. I want the bar to run well, and they may not have the confidence. I want to build them up, but that’s