Luci Luci’s place over the next week had been right next to her mother, even when she’d told her mother she didn’t want to be there. Her mother had stared her down and told her as the next in line to be the Alpha, it was her duty to stand next to her and help to assist in the running of the pack. Her mother, it seemed, still had plans for Luci to be the heir to the pack and wouldn’t take no for an answer. Luci had voiced Thatcher being the real heir only once and her mother’s anger had notched up considerably. Told her; as the oldest, it was not only her right, but she was a Pure-blooded Alpha, and it was expected of her to know how to run a pack. Do the duties of an heir, then heard her voice, “You are the heir to this pack, it is already written as such.” Luci had not argued with her a