Chapter Three - Fall in Line
The Pearl Pack Beta closed the great wooden doors behind him with a slam that rattled the hall. His chest was tight, his wolf restless. The council elders had just finished their meeting—half of them convinced Jalen was no longer fit to lead, half still clinging to his title out of loyalty to his bloodline. In the end, they had agreed: Jalen himself would answer for his failures. They would give him one chance to face them, to prove he was still Alpha.
The Beta exhaled hard and raked a hand through his hair. He had no idea what kind of Jalen would walk through those doors tomorrow—the hollow-eyed drunkard or the strong Alpha he used to be.
Far away, in the shadowed corner of a locked chamber, Chelsea hummed softly as she stirred herbs into a shallow bowl of
