Chapter 44 - Dual POV

Creed

Day three at the New Moon Festival and a freak thunderstorm fried the cell phone towers. We decided to stick it out even though we couldn’t contact our pack members back home, but then on the fifth day it rained non-stop even though sunny skies were predicted, so we decided to end it early.

Long story short, my first New Moon Festival was a disaster.

Pack Elders will see this and say the Gods have cursed my reign. They won’t allow their packs back here if I am still Alpha of the BloodCrest pack. How could I not have thought of a backup to all of this? I know my father would have…

Viktor claps me on my back just as we enter the city. “Don’t look so glum. Everything that happened was naturally occurring events.”

That’s even worse.

“And now other packs will see it as the Gods being against me as Alpha,” I say, knowing how rumors spread. “I never should have done it this year; everything is a fucking mess now.”

He doesn’t try to change my mind, instead, he sighs and continues drivin