(Ruby) I spent the rest of the week in bed at the pack hospital. Karson explained that he received a phone call right before he came to the school. A rogue attack on Emerald Forest. The attack took the lives of anyone standing in their way, including Alpha Michael…and my father. The doctor was explaining that the pain I was feeling was because someone I was close to was killed. The pain would eventually subside. I reached for my purse and grabbed out the phone my father left me. Still clutching my chest, I dialed my mother's number. “Who is this?” My mother said between sobs. Hearing my mother cry only broke me more. “Mama?” I managed to say. All it took was for her to hear my voice to send her into tears again. I spent two hours on the phone with her. I would come back for my father’