Sixty Five

The first thing York did when he could stand up and move was buy a plane ticket.

He didn't say where he was going, but he said he was definitely going.

Avery is baffled.

Her parents were furious, the elders were horrified, the Council was outraged, and Avery was screwed.

The news was unexpected.

Shock waves had gone through the pack, and Mitchell and Hayden had been dealing with tonnes of calls from the other Alphas.

York signed off on the documents passing the title to Avery, unofficially - her hearing needed to be completed before she could be declared as the proper, permanent Alpha.

Scott arrives two hours after York's shock announcement.

He finds Avery sitting in her kitchen, zoned out and eating her way through a pint of cookie dough ice cream.

His eyebrows slowly raise as he hones in on the bundled up figure in the corner.

"Are you okay?" He asks, kneeling down beside her curiously.

"York renounced his title," she splutters out, turning and staring at her friend, her eyes wide a