40 - Challenges

MORDECAI

"Come on man, loosen up. There aren't as many rules here. Lycans just kind of fall in place naturally," Alpha Ryder handed me what was going to be my third cup of wolfsbane laced alcohol. Something was up and I wanted to find out what.

Gideon had been ripped from me the moment all the introductions were done and we settled in the room. I wasn't alone in this though. Brody was sulking deeply and drowning his sorrows next to me. Apparently he'd smelt Ace's scent wafting in the wind at some point.

I gulped down a hearty amount of the cup and groaned. It stung my throat and clouded my mind," are you purposely trying to get me drunk?" I tried to sound confident b