After the death of Niall Ryder, the spies he planted in both Western and Eastern Packs were easily found.
For the Western Pack, it had been one of Tristan's Pack Council members. The forty-nine year-old woman had a drug addiction and only became completely sober years ago, but apparently her debt was enormous and she needed the Southern Pack's money to pay it off.
Tristan's patrol found the woman trying to flee near midnight the day after Niall's death, with her belongings in a suitcase. They had searched her house and found emails she exchanged with Niall Ryder on her laptop.
Tristan had been open about the betrayal he felt, seeing that he'd stuck by the woman—Marian—even through the worst of her addiction. The Head Alpha of the Western Pack didn't want to share what response they'd
