Conquest of the Alpha
is not an act of a sane person, and at the very least you will be spending your days looking out the window of a sanitarium. My job is to make the case against you, but you have already done that for us.” He sat there and looked at her, thinking that maybe she would slip up and give away the fact that she was a cold-blooded killer. After a few minutes, he got up with a sigh of exasperation, taking his leave and going out to find that a psychiatrist had been called to look into the case.
    “I’m Tanner Williams, and I have been requested to do an assessment on this young lady. If you don’t mind, I would like a few minutes with my patient, so that I can determine if she is fit to be put into a jail cell.” Tanner had many aliases, and it just so happened that one of them was a well known psychiatrist that had lost his life in a skiing accident a few years ago. His credentials would hold up to a casual inspection, but if they were to dig deeper, then they might come up with the fact that he was supposed to be dead and buried in a graveyard near his hometown of Corpus Christi.
    “Take your time, but I don’t think you’re going to get much out of her. She didn’t even react when I showed her the photographs of her crime. That’s pretty cold-blooded to me, and she deserves whatever punishment comes her way. You might be able to mount an insanity defense, but as long as she’s off the street, I know that I will sleep better.” He moved his hand over his slightly thinning hair, thinking that he needed a cup of coffee and a doughnut before calling it a day. He had no idea that Tanner was here to make sure that Julia was not incarcerated for too long.
    Tanner didn’t understand how it was possible for Julia to keep her true self under wraps, when it was taking every bit of willpower on his own behalf to keep the beast from leaping out to defend her. The full Moon was still visible, but half of it was now covered by clouds. This was the only thing that was keeping him at bay, although he still looked down at his hands and could see that hair was still quite prevalent. His fingernails kept moving back and forth, almost as if they had a will of their own to transform into the beast.
    Going into the room, he saw Julia still staring straight ahead at the photographs on the table, her leg twitching and her body trembling. He knew those signs better than anybody, and there was really only one way to snap her out of it. Raising his hand, he took a deep breath and then slapped her across the face three times in rapid succession.
    “Owww…what the hell did you do that for?” The blank stare on her face turned into recognition, blinking her lids and then finally pulling herself out of the black abyss that she had fallen into. “I can’t believe I just did that… I just can’t believe I just did that to Chance.” Her psyche was shattered, but there were still pieces that could be put back together. “I don’t remember doing it, but I have his blood on my hands as a reminder.” Julia lifted her hands and showed the dried red substance, along with bits of skin that still hung there.
    “I didn’t like Chance, but I can’t believe for one second that you did this under your own free will. Perhaps your wolf and his didn’t get along, and somehow you became the Alpha.” Tanner was trying to find any reason to explain her actions, but what he had seen on those photos were more than enough to convict her in any court of law.
    Julia began shaking her head, and then suddenly slammed her two fists down onto the table. “That’s just it, even though I don’t remember it, I know for certain that I didn’t have a chance to change. I was just in the process of feeling the effects of my first transformation, when suddenly everything went black. I wasn’t there anymore, and then when I did come to, I could feel this copper taste in my mouth, and Chance was lying at my feet. You should just kill me, because I’m not sure if I

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