Emory

I don’t immediately return to Crimson Peak. I take a few days to iron out the alliances with the other Alphas before they return to their villages. All the excitement from the previous days finally hits me, and I need to rest. My mother calls for a pack healer to come to the mansion for a check-up since the doctor I have been seeing is all the way back at Castle Graystone.

I have known the pack healer since I was a child. Collins was the healer that delivered Coit and I. And he and my mother have worked together over the years. Seeing a familiar face is a...