with any luck , distance would have strained lucas 's bond with the snake bend pack enough that his alpha would n't be able to pinpoint his exact location , and by the time shay figured out where lucas had gotten off to-assuming lucas had been straight with us about how he 'd gotten here in the first place-i 'd have managed to think of a way to play the snake bend alpha , the same way callum had been expertly playing all of us for years .