The drive was quiet. The more miles between them and the lodge the safer Clara began to feel, as if this weekend was a bad dream. She let out a sigh and watched as the trees flew by.

"How are you holding up?"

"Better," she said. "I don't want to think about this morning or that man ever again."

"That man was Lucas the Beta, and speaking on his behalf I can tell you he is very sorry for his behavior."

"Sexual assault is not something you can just apologize for and make disappear."

"I take sexual assault very seriously."

"You do? So then is he banished from the pack?"...