<b>Chapter </b><b>232 </b>
<b>“</b>Cole, what do you understand about off book runs?”
“The previous alphas, all of them, told me I was going on an off book run before putting me in the hospital, keeping me there for weeks and if they se home<b>.</b>”
His eyes are wide with fear as he tries to step away from me.
“Don’t step away, son. I know you don’t trust me but I am doing this so I can help you.”
He’s shaking his head slowly, his eyes are darting between making eye contact with me and looking at the wall behind me.
“Cole, I see the fear but I need your help to understand what happened with the other packs. I believe you said you’ve been to three, before thine
“Yes <b>sit</b>.”
Even his voice wavers with fear before he attempts to step back again, cringing in pain as he tries to put weight on his left leg.
“Are you in with him? Did he order you too?”
“What would make you think such a way<b>?!</b><b>” </b>
“Easy on the defensiveness Patrick. Cole and I are on the same page.”
I respond to Patrick’s outburst calmly catching Cole’s eyes in mine as he studies me.
“I was wondering the same thing. I have not directly spoken with your father. With every pack there is an assigned contact that deals with <b>the </b>prospects. Only half the alphas involved in the program will talk to another alpha about the prospects unless you are inviting <b>a </b>wolf back for a second run. It is your delta, David Thomas, that I spoke with when Das, Richard and Andrew were sent back but that doesn’t mean that your father didn’t reach out to the others. It is also possible that your father had Delta David say something to them but I assure you, that is not the case with me. Is there anything that <b>was </b>said to you by the other packs that would make you believe that he ordered them to make <b>you </b><b>an </b>off book <b>run</b><b>?</b>”
He shakes his head slowly, studying me hard, looking for the truth.
“I have looked you up Cole. You are in the council’s prospect database. They have you listed as spending time at Yellowtail, Blue Mountain and Red Moon packs. Yes<b>?</b><b>” </b>
He seems to be calming down as he nods his head.
“Okay. So, an off book run is one that is throughly documented by the pack’s alpha but very little makes it into the database.”
“If Cole’s runs at the previous packs were unremarkable, why would all three choose off the books<b>?</b><b>” </b>Lucas spits as if Cole is trying to hide something.
“Calm the tone, <b>Lucas</b>. Off book runs are not something that can be requested by the prospects<b>. </b>They can only be implemented by the pack’s alpha and are
used to hide the alpha’s actions with particr prospects.”
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“The mostmon reasons for off book runs are to hide a prospect’s mental health issues so the prospect can continue in the program, to hide the implementation of inappropriate or illegal discipline, or, in my case<b>, </b>it allows me to hide from your father the level of care and interest I have in you.”
<b>I </b>take over Patrick’s exnation as I use my hand to guide Cole into looking at me.
“I don’t know why the other pack’s did an off book run with you. While it is possible, considering the level of injuries we have found on you, that <b>your </b>father contacted the other <b>packs </b>and gave them/instructions on how he wanted them to treat you, my motivation <b>is </b><b>to </b><b>protect </b>you.”
The <b>Son </b><b>of </b>Red Fang
<b>Chapter </b><b>233 </b>