Chapter Twenty-One (Anders)

The castle was busy. Omegas prepared food for the feast tonight which would take place after the pack meeting. I put training on hold for the day as everyone prepared doing various duties.

Large tables were being set up in the dining hall for the meeting. The dining hall was enormous, with vast windows facing the training grounds. Wolves brought barrels of whiskey up from the cellar. Being immortal, it took a lot of alcohol for wolves to get drunk, our metabolisms burnt it off quickly. Whiskey was the drink of choice for most of the pack.

Pack meetings were usually held once a month on the full moon, normally followed by a hunt. This month, however, there would be two, although this one was less formal, more about sharing information, and no hunt was planned afterwards. The pack was abuzz with gossip about my father's death and the capture of Thane and me, as well as Alec's daring rescue. It was impossible to keep any information secret.

There was also talk of a prisoner and specul