AMELIA When I'd asked my parents to give me a more important role within the pack than just being a wolf, I'd expected anything but that - a meeting with the Sovereign Alpha over an unnamed urgent matter. They'd just unceremoniously thrown me into the lion's den, just like that. They could have taken it easier, I thought as I ran in my wolf form toward Crescent Moon territory. I don't know, get me an internship with Mike or something. Sending me off to be a representative for our pack with no political experience whatsoever was ... it was like entrusting an open-heart surgery to a first-year freshman - not a medicine one, but an ancient literature one. Sometimes I just didn't understand my parents. My ideal role in the pack was anything but political. I'd have seen myself as sco