-Molly- Having the alpha conference here was a terrible idea. I should have put my foot down, but I didn’t, and here we are. We’ve got one kid discovering a magical ability that almost drove another crazy (or to the woods, because I’m not sure that wasn’t part of his desire to leave), and we’ve got two girls who could go into heat at any moment. We don’t yet know with certainty that the tonic to stop their heat cycles works. This was a mistake. “Relax,” Seth says, squeezing my neck. I reach back and slap his hand away. “I told you this would be a terrible idea.” “Molly, it’s going to be fine,” he says, but I can see it in his eyes. He’s lying to me, and he’s just as scared for Mason and the girls as I am. “It’s done. They’re here. We’ve got to go forward with it.” “We can’t m

