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“Dean!”
I skidded to a stop and looked around for the source of the voice. Dear God, I hadn’t heard that voice in so long.
“Dean! Over here!”
I turned around, sniffing the air deeply as her voice echoed off the corners of my mind. The last time I’d seen Raven in the flesh, she had been ten or eleven years old. She had been calling after me out the window of her mother’s truck as they pulled away from the pack. Leaving us all in their wake after her mother and father’s marriage fell apart.
“Dean!”
All at once, my body dropped to the ground. A vision so powerful and so ingrained within me took hold and zapped any energy I had rushing throughout my muscles. Slapstick, still-life images bombarded my mind. Images of Raven smiling, laughing, and splashing me with water. Images of her rushing out of her home while her parents fought like fucking cats and dogs. Images of her calling out to me with her head stuck out the window as her mother pulled away with a truck full of their belongings and nothing but hatred in her heart. The images shifted to her growing up, away from her pack. She was older now. Her lanky body had transformed into one with supple curves. Her long brown hair was now cut short and dyed pink. She looked and felt completely human. As if her wolf was completely cut off from her. Then the images shifted again and it was as if she stood right in front of me. For a moment, it felt real, even though I knew I was having a vision. My wolf looked up at her and her commanding presence overwhelmed me. I could feel the power coursing off of her body as she smiled and reached down towards me as my vision faded.
I shook my head roughly trying to right my mind. My visions always left me in a foggy state. I sunk my claws deep into the dirt and pushed my body up. And just as I stumbled back onto my feet, a thought slapped me across the face like a bat out of hell. Raven was our new alpha.
It can’t be.
“Dean? The fuck? Can you even hear me right now?” Levi asked.
I looked over and watched as one of my best friends walked over to me.
I quickly shifted back into my human form.
“You good?” he asked as he approached me. “I thought we were all running before dinner.”
I opened my mouth, but I couldn't speak.
“You’ve had a vision,” Levi said as he narrowed his eyes. “What did you see? What is it?”
I swallowed hard. “I know who the new alpha is.”
His eyes widened. “Who? Who is it? Who’s coming to take Colin’s place?”
And as I searched his gaze, her name dripped from my lips like honey.
“Raven.”
Levi blinked. “Are you sure about that?”
I cleared my throat. “I’ve never been more sure of anything in my entire life.”
Levi grinned. “Well, if she’s anything like that skinny little girl she used to be, she’ll never be able to lead this pack.”
“If she looked anything like she did in my vision, she sure as hell wasn’t a skinny little girl anymore.”
Footfalls sounded behind me and I whipped around, watching as Hudson’s wolf soared toward me. He leapt clear over my head and shifted into his human form right as he touched down to the ground. And when he spun around, he locked his prying gaze with my own.
“Did you just say Raven’s our new alpha?” he asked.
I nodded. “I just had the vision. She’s supposed to be arriving tomorrow.”
Brody walked up to the three of us with a wrinkled nose. “My cousin? But she’s only half-wolf. We’re really going to let someone who’s half-human guide this pack? She hasn’t been here in, what? Fifteen years?”
Levi cackled. “Now we know why Elias was so adamant on us being around to teach our new alpha the ropes. We’ll have to start her back in fucking grade school with this shit!”
While the guys volleyed things back and forth, relief washed over my veins. To know that a new alpha was coming to deal with the hefty weight upon my shoulders was something I couldn’t wait to hand over. I wasn’t right for this job. I wasn’t cut out to lead one of the largest packs in Oregon toward the light, for lack of better phrasing. After all, I couldn’t even get my own goddamn powers to kick in when it counted, and that was the reason why her father was dead. Colin died because my powers decided to take a fucking break that day.
And I didn’t deserve the title of alpha because of it.
“Let’s get to running,” I said, disrupting the laughter of the men in front of me.
