Sarah's POV After dealing with Suzanna, I walked out of the restroom feeling slightly lighter—some of the pent-up emotion finally released. My mood had been foul to begin with, and I hadn't even planned to confront her today. But she just had to walk straight into the line of fire. If she hadn't, I wouldn't have caused a scene in public. To be blunt, Suzanna brought this on herself. And honestly, compared to the harm she inflicted on me, what just happened was nothing. If Alexander hadn't shown up when he did back then, I'd be a corpse floating in the ocean—face unrecognizable, skin eaten away by salt and time. Was I afraid of her retaliation? The Alpha Malcolm's Pack was one of the few powerful werewolf bloodlines near Crescent Valley. With their support—and a

