(Ashley)
The news about Aria's successful patrol spread through the pack house like wildfire. By dinner time, everyone was talking about how their Luna had tracked down rogues and captured prisoners. How she had refused to back down even when they were specifically targeting her.
I sat at my usual table, listening to the chatter around me, and felt sick to my stomach. This was not supposed to happen. Aria was supposed to fail, supposed to prove that she was not capable of being Luna. Instead, she was gaining support with every passing day.
"Did you hear she actually disobeyed the Alpha's direct order?" Jenny Martinez was saying to the woman next to her. "Told him she was going to do her job whether he liked it or not."
"That takes guts," the other woman replied. "Most wolves would have
