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The pack might be another thing.
The shed was in an uproar.People kept debating even before Byron appeared, talking over each other in a panic. Eli’s attack was common knowledge, but nobody knew what had happened since, and if he would return or not.
When I entered the shed, Victor had to push people away from me to stop them from bombarding me with questions.
“The alpha will speak soon,” he announced. “Leave Dorian alone. He has enough to deal with.”
That didn’t stop the speculation. Byron entered a few minutes later, but the storm inside barely quietened. I hung out alongside the doors, ready to leave. I wanted every second with Margo that I could salvage.
Victor looked at me. He had his own questions. I shrugged. I didn’t even know where to begin.
Ryan called out for everybody to be quiet. They obeyed, but not with the immediacy that they granted Nathan. Jeremy stood and bellowed for everyone to shut up. They all fell silent then. I was surprised to see Jeremy. I hadn’t noticed him much since the incident at the hospital.
He usually threw off aggressive vibes, but when he stood at Byron’s shoulder, he could have been Nathan.
“I know you’re all concerned about the incident with the harbinger,” Byron began.
“Do you?” somebody shouted. “We could have lost our alpha!”
“Do you think I’m so easy to be rid of?” Byron’s voice wasn’t loud, but it sent stirrings throughout the crowd.
“It isn’t that,” Cecilia said, moving forwards through the crowd. “But it would be detrimental to the pack if we lost you now. Let somebody else take the risks.”
Many people appeared to agree with her. Victor kept fidgeting. It was only a matter of time before he couldn’t hold it in any longer.
“You wouldn’t respect him if he put other people in danger to protect himself,” I called out instead. “Be honest, Cecilia. He was only in danger because he tried to protect me and everyone else who was there. That’s what leaders do, right?”
She glared at me. “There shouldn’t have been danger in the first place. This argument with the harbingers isn’t even ours.”
“It wasn’t so long ago that one of our own was the danger to us,” Byron said. “Should I throw away all of you because of one?”
Cecilia bowed her head.
Byron sighed. “We learned a lot from the incident. The harbinger Eli is using a power that is forbidden by his kind. It drains him, and he can only seem to direct it at one person at a time. I have every reason to believe he will return in some manner, but that’s not what this meeting is about.”
Again, murmurs spread through the crowd.
He rose to his feet and then paced in front of us. “I’ve accepted the help of another harbinger, Vira, the woman who visited us before. She is Margo Harding’s birth mother, Eli’s sister, and a long-time victim of the harbinger compound. She has agreed to aid us, as she did during Eli’s last attack. As for Margo, we’ve come to realise that protecting others is slowly killing her. She is too human to survive the damage that death is doing to her.”
He stopped moving to face the crowd, his hands behind his back. “To survive and to help protect the pack, Margo has asked us to take a great risk. A risk to her more than it is to us, but a risk all the same.” His expression didn’t change, but I imagined he was bracing himself. “Margo has asked us to turn her into a werewolf.”
A whirlwind of energy ran through the room. Discontent, fear, distrust. No acceptance. I stared at my feet, trying to let it roll over me.
“We can’t do this,” somebody called out.
“She’s not even human!”
“It will never work!"
“It’ll taint the purity of the pack!”
“How could we do this to a child?”
“The harbingers will use this as an excuse to attack!”
“She doesn’t deserve to be in the pack!”
“It’s unnatural.”
