REESE POVIt has been a week since the Funeral Rite.  The hole that the death of my parents left seems almost too much to bear sometimes. My brothers and I shared a large office with three separate desks and a large area in the middle with comfortable chairs and couches surrounding a low table for an informal meeting area.  Typical for us, Caleb was the only one that was consistently behind his desk.  I tended to sit in a chair and use the low table and Ethan liked to sprawl on the couch and shout his input at us.  We were in our usual places going over the suggested warrior assignments for the next month.  Alessia remained our Gamma and she was in charge of setting things up and giving them to us to approve. I threw the proposed assignments back on the table.  “Alessia knows these warriors better than we do.  I trust her judgement,” I said.  Ethan opened an eye and looked out at us.&nb

  IZZY POV“Try again,” Reese instructed.  We were in the basement of the Alpha House and he was trying to instruct me on how to shift fluidly.  The triplets could shift mid-air or while running.  I wanted to be able to do that.I backed up and began to run and then tried calling Heka while leaping forward.  I landed on my stomach, the wind knocked out of me.   The poor landing was made worse by the fact that I was naked.  I didn’t want to ruin another set of clothes today, so I was racing around the basement in the nude.“Most wolves can’t do it,” Caleb said, kindly.  “Other than us, your mom, Silvo and our friend Brian are the only ones that I know that can.”“I don’t care,” I said with gritted teeth.  “I will learn.”“Okay, then again,” Reese said, patiently.I got up on my hands and knees, slowly, an

REESE POV“I’ll go talk to her,” I told my brothers.  “You guys stay out of this.  That way she can be mad at one of us, not all of us.”We had just spoken to the Council.  The Council was a group of elder werewolves who knew the lore and the traditions.  They made the laws and stepped in when Packs overstepped or didn’t comply.  If a Pack is peaceful, the Council rarely intervenes.  But if an allegation was made, they would step in and rule.We had a virtual meeting with one of the Elders that had been a good friend to our father.  He was aware of the living situation and how it had come about.“Traditionally, the Packhouse is the home of the Alpha, Beta and Gamma as well as where the pack gathers.  When your father approached the Council about building a separate Packhouse that would also double as a sort of community center, we were agreeable because your pack had grown t

IZZY POVI wearily opened the door to my floor and entered the sitting room with Stella.  She and I had just gotten back from training.  She tended to accompany me whenever I left the Alpha House these days.  The triplets had been gone for over two weeks, following leads to find whoever was responsible for poisoning their father.Something crashed in my bedroom and Stella looked at me, alert.  Warily I walked to the bedroom door and flung it open.  Katie was coming out of my bathroom.“What are you doing here?” I asked, letting the anger fill my voice.“Did you not send in the order for supplies?” she asked me, her voice sounding as angry as I was.  “I need shampoo.  You didn’t order it, so I took yours.”I stood, speechless at her gall.  She took my silence for compliance. “As Luna of the pack, it’s your responsibility to make sure we are pro

IZZY POVLucy and I looked at each other in disbelief.  Finally, I spoke.“Is there a way you can make it look like the program is still working, but it’s not?” I asked.  I wanted to regain control, but I didn’t want to lose the upper hand.  Right now the person who was messing with my communications didn’t know that I knew I was being sabotaged.Ben pursed his lips and nodded.  “I can build a program,” he said.  “It will take a couple hours.  And we’ll have to send some dummy calls through so that it still looks like they’re getting your calls.”“What do you need?” Lucy briskly asked.  “And can you print out that list of numbers?  We need to go through and figure out what’s all been tampered with.”“I can take this home and work on it there,” Ben said.  “I have a better set up than what I&rs