Scarlet

The morning after the fights, Scarlet’s head is filled with thoughts of “the burn marks on her dad’s arm, the terror in his face,” and “his desperation to find whatever her [grandmother] had hidden” (111). Her dad is passed out upstairs, and she tries researching tattoos like Wolf’s but finds nothing. She thinks back to when she saw Wolf “nearly [kill] his opponent amid all those spectators” (113) and the howl she heard moments later. She researches wolves and learns that “wolves howl in order to gain the attention of their pack” (114). She wonders if Wolf has a “pack,” and as she learns about the difference between alpha wolves and omega wolves, she is interrupted by the arrival of Wolf himself. Scarlet holds him at gunpoint and demands to know why he has come to her farm, and he says he wants to talk to her “about the tattoo” and “what happened to [her] grandmother” (117) and father. He insists he was not the one who kidnapped her grandmother or tortured her father but might know who did, and he offers to help. Reluctantly, Scarlet leads Wolf into the house at gunpoint and orders him to “tell [her] everything” (119).