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“Moon drunk indeed,” the woman murmured.
Laughter sounded, farther away.
I felt a blanket being folded around my shoulders, and Dream Glen moved away as the woman took me from him, carrying me without any problem. I took a breath, scenting blood. A lot of blood. I craned my neck to see whose it was.
“Don’t look back,” she instructed. So I didn’t.
As she carried me away, my head began to clear. “That was Glen, right? The real Glen,” I whispered.
“Mhmm,” she said, her lips twitching. “My son.”
“I said all that stuff out loud to him.”
“Mhmm.” We were following another shifter, an unranked girl who looked vaguely familiar.
“Did I… Did I lick him?” Oh, please let that part have been a dream.
No such luck. “Mhmm.”
“Can you do me a favor and kill me when we get back to the dorm?”
The woman let out the least feminine laugh I’d ever heard, snorts and all. More of a guffaw than a giggle. “Oh, sweet girl, I would never do such a thing. Keeping you alive is my number one priority.”
That was nice, and not at all the reaction I usually got. “So… I’m not sure what happened while I was passed out.” I waited, but she didn’t speak. “Is it correct to assume Trevor kicked my a—I mean, defeated me?”
“Yes.”
This made no sense. “And my Alpha didn’t kill me?”
Her red lips curled up. “You don’t have a Southern Alpha right now.”
“How is that possible? Is he dead?” Please let him be dead.
“No,” she spat, her tone scathing. “That’s the problem. Luke challenged him, defeated him, but didn’t kill him for some reason.”
“You’re not allowed to kill in dominance battles,” I inserted. I didn’t like the way she was second-guessing Luke’s decision. Without him bringing me that mop, I wouldn’t have lived through the first minute of the fight with Trevor. I was just moon drunk enough to tell her that.
She shook her head. “Yet another strike against your former Alpha. He didn’t teach pack law?”
“Oh no, he did, all the time. He read it out loud.” Him or Van Blackside. Every fucking dinnertime, and at lunch on Sundays.
“Honey, if he did, then he left out a lot. Or changed it to suit his needs.” She sounded certain.
“So why isn’t Luke the Alpha now, if he beat him?”
She kept going, carrying me as she walked and answered my questions, not even slightly out of breath. “When the old Alpha dies in a dominance challenge with another shifter, the power of the Alpha naturally moves to the winner. Unfortunately, until his death, your old Alpha is still in charge.”
I froze. “Is he… loose?”
“No, he was taken to the cell he’d had my son in.”
“Super thick silver-plated bars, close together,” I muttered. “Not even I can get out of that one. Trust me, I tried.”
She sucked in a breath. “You spent time in that dirty cell? But you’re a child!”
I shrugged. “I’m nineteen.” I had been a child when he’d thrown me in there, but I didn’t want this strong woman to think I was the sort who complained.
She let it slide, but I could see she wasn’t forgetting it. “In any case, Luke will be Alpha as soon as my husband—Bradley, he’s the Head of the North American Council—gets it passed in the meeting.”
