#Chapter 176: The Speech

Nicholas I straightened my tie one final time as I approached the podium. The guild hall was packed with members from various packs, all eager to hear what the candidates for chairman had to say. The position William had left vacant in the wake of his timely escape—from which he had still not returned—was coveted, and I knew my competitors were formidable. But I had prepared for this. For days, I’d been crafting my speech, refining each word until it was utterly perfect. This was my opportunity to finally become a chairman. To figure out what exactly had happened to my mother, take down the bastards responsible, and root out the rest of the evil that had taken over the guild. And then it happened. Just as I stepped up to the podium, my wolf suddenly roiled within me. The sensation was violent, urgent, unlike anything I’d experienced before. A single thought—not mine, but his—crashed through my consciousness with such force that I physically staggered. She’