ALLISON. My pack mates didn’t dislike me without a reason or just because I didn’t have a mate yet, although that might be one of the reasons that made it to the list of the reasons that they hated me. But there were ultimately two reasons why some of them didn’t fully recognize my position as the Gamma of the pack. One of those reasons was because I was different, always have been but it only became more apparent on the day of my eighteenth birthday. While normal werewolves acquired their inner wolf on their eighteenth birthday, I had been different. I did not get a wolf, no voice whispering in my head, no primal entity guiding my actions. At first, I thought I was broken and maybe an utter disappointment in our pack—someone who would not be able to wolf out ever in her life. But I was