“Wait, right now, right now?” I ask my father incredulously the day after I return.
“Well,” he says with a laugh, “not exactly. Tonight.”
“Don’t you… want to deal with Pierce first? I mean, shouldn’t you do that as Alpha?” My father is now well enough to walk around a little bit, and we are in his office for the first time since the attack. “I don’t think it’s a good idea to waste time, is it?”
“It isn’t wasting time,” he says. He looks serious and he is staring straight into my eyes without blinking. “This is important for the pack. It’s more important than dealing with the traitors. Because it’s important that you deal with them. You are the reason they attacked. You are the reason they tried to kill us. All of us. And, Skylar, it’s important you deal with them not as my daughter, the
