Jana's POV

"Don't do this again," I say to Carys. My eyes are teary, but if I break down here, the pack will see me as weak. And that would start a whole new problem.

"I'm trying to protect you, all of you. Please, leave it at that," she stands up, I join her.

"Protect us from what?" Bryn asks.

"Gerwyn, take Bryn to the river," Ceri says. They obey her immediately. "You too, Jana."

"You're not pushing me out again, Ceri!"

"Now, Jana!" She crosses her arms. I look at Carys. She crosses her arms too and looks down at the ground. I hate how they can push me around like this. I love her, I just want to help.

"Fine," I storm out after Gerwyn and Bryn. Bryn has run off with the cubs, Gerwyn and Maddy are sat with Rhydian. I walk over.

"We will keep an eye out, son, it's not your place to get involved."

"Not his place?" I chime in, I'm still angry. They all stand. "He's her brother, and he's known her longer than you have. If anyone is going to figure this out it's us. You didn't even try to get her back, did you?"

"Jana, don't start this now," Maddy tries to pull me aside.

"No, he needs to hear this," I push past her to get in Gerwyn's face. "If you really want to be her father, you'll find who's doing this and have them exiled. That's what a true Alpha would do. Actually no, that's what a dad would do."

"She's right dad," Rhydian comes to my side.

"Rhydian?" Maddy snaps at him.

"We can't just wait this out, we have to fix it now, before she gets worse. Yeah, maybe she's not hearing voices yet, but it's only a matter of time. We can't let her suffer while we sit back and 'keep an eye out.' Whatever the hell that means. Come on Jana." He walks straight past Maddy. I follow.

"Rhydian, come back. Rhydian!" Maddy shouts after him. He ignores her.

We walk along the river and sit down on a small ledge. "Any ideas as to who's doing this?" He asks me. "You guys were out here for a while last year."

"Not a clue, I mean the pack all had a bit of a problem with her at first, because of her paren- sorry, Rhiannon and Geraint, but I didn't think any of them would go this far," I scan my brain for some kind of answer. She's always been kind to everyone in the pack, it just doesn't make sense that someone would hate her so much that they'd put her through hell.

"You'd be surprised what goes through a Wolfblood's mind when their pack is hurting. Maybe she did something to upset someone specifically, something she didn't realise. Can you think of anything like that?"

"Nope, nothing. For the most part, she stayed out of everyone's way. She knows they're all stronger than she is. Well, she thinks they are, she never really put it to the test. Until she got that bruise. When I get my paws on whoever did that to her, I don't know what I'll do," I clench my fists and try to contain my wolf.

"I'm with you on that one. I'm so angry, and... scared," he goes quiet. He has a look on his face that I think only I can relate to.

"Do you still see it?" He looks at me, he knows what I'm talking about. "When you close your eyes?" He nods. "Right after it happened, I barely slept for weeks, I kept picturing her lying on the floor," I take a breath. "There was just so much blood all over her," I try to shake off the image in my mind.

"I still struggle to sleep, but the other night I did. I hate myself for not waking up when she was taken from our tent."

"Whoever's doing this must have a reason to hate her, more of a reason than anyone else has. It obviously wasn't Gwyn, she's just a cub..." We go through all the females in the pack, hoping to narrow it down.

"What about Tove?" Rhydian asks.

"She and her little gang were giving us weird looks the other day. They're a little bit mean, but they've never really acted on anything they've thought was wrong about someone."

When we were cubs, the four of us were inseparable. As we got older, they started to realise that I was the Alpha's daughter, so they cut me out. It was Meinir who made them ditch me. She liked to be in charge and hated that I would never obey her. They knew that if they ever upset me, whether it was an accident or not, there would be repercussions. Awful ones. Ingrid and I were especially close, we had a shared curiosity for the human world, things have definitely changed. She's dead set against any human interaction now.

"Rhydian, I think I know who it is." He doesn't hear me because Ceri, Gerwyn and Maddy are running towards us shouting about something.

"The cubs are hurt!" Gerwyn shouts. "You have to help us calm the pack down Jana, Alric's out hunting and they won't listen to us. They don't trust us."

"Bryn is missing!" Ceri says, on the verge of tears.

"Okay, calm down Ceri, take us to the cubs." We run back to the tent where Carys sits with Gwyn and Cadwr trying to dress their wounds. They're covered in blood and bruises.

"I told you this would happen," she whispers to herself as she cleans Gwyns face.

"They're wounds aren't threatening and I have remedies for any internal damage, but Jana, Bryn is still out there somewhere," Ceri jumps into action to help the cubs.

I have to resume my position as Alpha. "Ceri, you and Carys stay with the cubs. Maddy, I need you to stand guard outside of the tent, keep the rest of the pack out. I will speak to the pack and then Rhydian will find Bryn." I look at Carys as we leave the tent, she's a mess but she's safe in here with her parents.

The pack are circling the camp, starting fights with each other, they're furious at the thought of there being a traitor among us.

"Quiet!" I shout, the camp falls silent, except for the moans and groans coming from the tent. I step up onto a tree stump, everyone looks at me. I take a breath. "Our cubs are hurt; our Alpha isn't present. I understand your fury and your fear."

"We don't fear cowards who attack children!" Someone shouts.

"Fear is okay, it can be a good thing. It fuels us, it fuels us for justice. I promise I will find who hurt them, and I will do exactly what they did, if not worse, to them. We will get our vengeance!" They cheer for me, but I don't feel so cheerful. Rhydian tugs me back to whisper in my ear.

"You're not going to kill anyone are you?" I don't answer. That's all I want to do. Kill. "And what about Bryn? We need a search party," he asks.

"We can't tell them he's missing, and we can't bring anyone with us to search. I'm pretty sure I know who did this, but if she's got people on her side they could lead us off in the wrong direction or worse," I tug back away from him. I scan the pack for the girl I'm looking for. I don't see Ingrid, but I see Tove and Beca looking guilty as sin. They look so out of place in the blood-thirsty crowd. I silence the pack again. "Tove, Beca." Everyone looks at them, and they turn white as a sheet. "Follow me."

I jump down and walk towards them as Rhydian follows. I lead them to one of the empty tents. They reluctantly enter. Rhydian stands by the entrance, not saying a word. He's suddenly lost all of his rage and is only full of worry for his family, which I understand. But now that Bryn's life is at stake, I can't waste time worrying, I have to take action.

"Where's Ingrid?" I ask. They look at each other. "Answer me!" I vein up and growl in their faces.

"She's hunting. With Alric and Aran," Tove says.

"Don't lie to me."

"You're not my Alpha, you don't get to make demands," Tove is trying to scare me. It won't work.

"As soon as my father is Alpha again, I am the next in line, so I think you'll find that I do have authority over you. Until then, Rhydian is the heir, so he has authority. You're going to the Kronock."

"No, no please," Beca starts begging, and Tove looks at her with disappointment. "I'm sorry Tove, I'm not going to the Kronock. I'm not strong enough. Ingrid's down by the river," I bolt out of the tent with Rhydian chasing after me.

"Jana, wait! What are you going to do? You can't just attack her!" He says. I stop in my tracks.

"It's your family she's going after, Rhydian! Bryn could be seriously hurt and I'm not letting her get away with it. What's happened to you? 20 minutes ago, you wanted exactly what I did," I say.

"We're not killers, Jana. We can punish her. But I won't let you kill her."

"Kill who?" We turn around to see Ingrid standing there. In her hand is a small orange bottle of Carys' pills. An evil grin crosses her face. I feel my blood pumping around my body. Rhydian grabs my arm.

"Why? Where's Bryn?" I ask simply. I thought the second I saw her I would pounce on her and wrap my hands around her neck, squeezing the life out of her. But I just feel sad, heartbroken.

"Why what? Why did I give her what she deserved? I told her what would happen if she told anyone. When I heard her telling you and the rest of her misfit family all about our little chat, I had to follow through on my promise. Bryn's alive, but you won't find him. Because you'll be dead," she gets right up in my face. "I will kill every single one of you until there's no one left to corrupt this pack," I step back. I'm angry at myself for not wolfing out and scratching her eyes out, but I'm terrified. Rhydian steps in front of me. I back away even further.

"Where's my brother?" He veins up. "He's just a kid, leave him out of it." She growls at him. "You don't scare me!" He screams in her face. They both start to transform. I try to run to them, but I feel hands clasp around my arms. Tove and Beca.

"LET ME GO," I shout and squirm, but I'm outnumbered. They wrestle me to the ground and one of them has her hands on my neck. The last thing I see is a blurry image of Rhydian and Ingrid scratching and biting at each other.

Everything goes black.