Trigger Warning: This chapter contains very disturbing details, such as animal cruelty and sexual assault!Elijah POVFLASHBACKThe gun trembled in my hand and I stared at him in shock.“Wh- who is she?” I asked.“It doesn’t matter.” He said. “The less you know about someone, the easier it is to kill them.”I studied the woman, she seemed to be in her early twenties, had short brown hair cut in a fringe and dark brown eyes. She was wearing a torn shirt, dirty blue jeans and black boots. She was chained to the wall by her wrists and when I took a step forward she scurried the furthest she could get away from me. A sob escaped her lips and tears trailed down her cheeks as she started to plead with me.“Please, don’t kill me… I’ll leave and never come back, I promise.”“Do it now.” My father ordered. I raised the gun in my trembling hands and the woman sobbed louder, shielding her face with her hands. My stomach churned and I felt my whole body struggle against what was asked of me.

Sally POVAlpha Jordan took the dagger and made a small incision on my palm. He then cut his own palm the same way. “Sally Freeman.” He said. “Do you swear your loyalty to this pack?”“I do.” I replied. “Do you swear to fully submit to me and recognize me as your Alpha?”“I do.”“And do you swear to care for the Blue Eclipse pack members? To be respectful to everyone no matter their rank, help the ones in need and treat all like your own family?”“I do.” Alpha Jordan put our bloodies hands together and smiled encouragingly at me, “Sally Freeman. I, Alpha Jordan Walker, hereby declare you a member of the Blue Eclipse pack.”Warmth spread in my chest, replacing the cold, empty feeling I had felt since I left Red Ridge. I smiled and tears of joy and relief ran down my cheeks when the mindlink opened up and several pack members welcomed me. I looked at Avery who was standing in the front row, clapping and hooting along with everyone else. I turned my gaze to Elijah. He grinned at me

Hudson POVA week later, Luke and I were still in the cells. I was bored out of my mind, just sitting around waiting for something to happen. We hadn’t heard anything else from my father, but since they didn’t drag him down here to share a cell with us, I hoped that it meant that he had succeeded. When Luke and I had almost finished our 237th round of ‘Never have I ever’, we heard someone coming our way. We quickly stood up, hoping it was someone that brought us food. This time, it wasn’t. Four warriors came down, chains rattling in their hands. “Alpha.” They said and bowed. “Beta.” They continued and bowed to Luke as well. “What’s going on?” I asked. “The Elders have completed their investigation.” One of the warriors said. “We were ordered to come get you.“With chains?” Luke muttered. The warriors smiled apologetically.“I’m really sorry.” One of them said. “We have our orders.”I shrugged, internally cringing at the humiliation to be led out in chains. “It’s okay, guys

Elijah POVJoe lunged at me with his fist raised. I blocked him and retaliated with a swift roundhouse kick that he barely managed to dodge. We kept going, barely missing each other for several minutes. Joe was a skilled fighter. He was one of the few that had been able to get the upper hand when sparring with me. It had been two days since Alpha Hudson arrived and the evacuation drills had started this morning. The Red Ridge members had quickly adapted and participated in the drills like the Blue Eclipse members. I admired the pack’s ability to just absorb over 150 people like it was nothing. It just shows how effective things could be if everyone just worked together. Luke was currently sleeping on the couch in the Beta wing since Sally and I occupied the guest room. Alpha Hudson had moved in with Avery in her quarters, something that Alpha Jordan grumbled about at first. Avery straight up flipped him off and told him that it was her mate and her decision. He couldn’t exactly a

Alex POV“SOMEBODY HELP!”I heard George’s voice when he rushed through the hospital.When I turned around I saw George carrying a lifeless Elijah. Immediately I turned into emergency mode and found a gurney. George placed Elijah down and I started working on him, barking out orders to the two nurses closest to me.One of them hooked him up to a monitor. “Blood pressure dropping, pulse spiking.” He said. I immediately located the gunshot wound in his head. “Bring him to surgery, right now!” I ordered. We rushed him down the corridor to a theater and started to prepare for emergency surgery. I frowned when I looked at the wound. “Why isn’t he healing anything on his own?” I mumbled. As a human doctor in a werewolf hospital, I had received some extra training to know that even when badly injured, the wound would start to close up in the edges as a first sign of a werewolf’s rapid healing. Elijah didn’t have those. “Run his blood and check for wolfsbane.”A nurse drew some blood