"Wait!" One of the guards approaches them and removes his hat.

"What do you want?" Allan asks in his dark tone.

"Well, according to werewolf policy, if the alpha is killed without any children or siblings, the one who takes him down will take over his position," he says, sounding uneasy. Althea would be as well if she had to say something like that to a criminal. "So you are the next alpha now."

"Ugh, no one really would even want me as an alpha god damn it," Allan groans vociferously.

"Who the hell made that idiotically hottest rule?" he asks dramatically. Althea laughed softly and nodded in agreement. Althea...