Alyssa POV
I wrap my arms tightly around myself and stare out the window, knowing that if I cry, I might never stop. When Xavier denied knowing who I was, I felt pain crush me, the kind I had never felt before, as though he had ripped out my heart and stomped all over it. I tried to be strong. I had tried to be the leader that this pack claimed it needed me to be, even though this was a world that I was unaccustomed to. None of the rogues had talked. None of them had any knowledge, or so they claimed, of who had hired them to kill Xavier and take me prisoner. I had let them go. No doubt this would anger Xavier when he discovered it. None of them had wanted to remain in the pack, except for Raine, who was struggling to come to terms with Thomas as her mate and whom Thomas was not even remo
