I cried until my throat ached and my body quaked with sobs. I had never cried so hard. Not when Ivy tortured me. Not when my step siblings tormented me. Not when I was ridiculed by my peers back in Whitefang and not even when I learned that my father had died. Seconds dripped into minutes, which bled into hours and slipped into night. Alpha Alexander put the fury in furious, angrily banging on my door and yelling at me to "OPEN THE f*****g DOOR, RED!" I squeezed myself harder, fat tears streaming down my cheeks and soaking up my pillow. "Red, you do not keep the council waiting! This is unprofessional and uncalled for, unfit for the a Luna! This drama has to stop now! Red!" I waited as he kept pounding on the door, wriggling the door knob and letting me know how thoroughly unplea