“Alpha!”
I closed my eyes for no longer than a second, using up every ounce of self-control that I possessed not to lose my hold on the smile that I had had plastered on my face for the last ten minutes, my eyes opening to drift over the Elders who had gathered in my home, to the man who had just burst in through the front door.
One thing was obvious—he was out of breath, which led me to believe that he had run quite some distance to make it here. I guessed that by the extent to which his eyes were widened, by the way that they were darting from place to place around the room, that he was looking for me—and that he had something important to tell me. Something that he deemed as important enough to risk interrupting a very important meeting with the pack Elders—essential
