The Black Crow pack had absorbed 17 smaller packs over the last 20 years, mostly through threats of violence or acts of financial aggression. Not a single one of the satellite packs had a good relationship with Black Crow or its former Alpha. When Eudora summoned them to meet together, tensions and hostilities were high. Every leader came with their ranked members, expecting the worst. Any time Alpha Sakwa had called them to the pack house, it had been bad news. Demands for money, forfeiture of property, conscription of warriors to some battle.
But on that particular Monday morning, they were courteously escorted into the conference room, and greeted by a table heaped with muffins, fresh fruit, sausages, and carafes of coffee and tea. They gossiped among themselves as they took adv
