AIDEN POV I can’t believe what I just found out. My parents are not only sentencing me with FIFTEEN public lashes as punishment for a couple of slaps to Frankie's face, but I am being temporarily demoted to omega and sent to work in some backwater pack as a lowly field labourer. This was too much. It was ridiculous. I was an Alpha, not some filthy omega labourer. I drove nice cars, ate expensive meals and wore tailored suits. The watch on my wrist cost more than most annual salaries, and I was expected to get and dig up potatoes like some pauper living off the land? Disgusting! I ran out of the packhouse as soon as I heard my parents talking. I needed fresh air. Puck, my wolf, was going through the long lists of I-told-you-so, and I was over it. As was typical, my run led me straight

