Chapter Seventy-Six

ELLE POV

Running through the woods, I can feel Charity's wolf flanking my right side, already taking her task as my Gamma now. While we have both lived in this pack for years, we aren't technically a part of it anymore, and now that my actual rank has been discovered, we can never be too careful that someone might use it against me.

'I don't feel any threatening energies from the New Moon members,' Scarlett confirms as we veer to the right, with Theo's wolf soaring ahead of us, continuing his circle when I feel his energy subtly knock, trying to gain entrance via our mindlink.

'Horny Alpha at four o'clock,' Theo says, his voice oozing happiness that I had not seen from Theo since moving onto the territory; there was always an underlying sadness that had not been there recently.

'Thank you, Beta,' I reply, his title rolling off my tongue like I had said it a million times before, in a past life, and it was starting to gnaw at my insides like it's important, but I can't figure ou