A Female Alpha’s Revenge

Chapter 1

Adelaide’s POV

The council hall of the Bloodmoon Pack hummed with cedar and damp.

I shrugged off my sweat-drenched silver fox cloak, my fingers absently tracing the Moon Goddess pendant at my throat.

The bronze throne beside me yawned empty—Alpha Ulrik’s seat.

Boots echoed on stone steps before the door burst open, snowmelt and pine scent flooding in.

I knocked over the mead jug, rising to greet him, amber liquid pooling over the sheepskin map.

“You’re finally back,” I managed, my voice catching.

A year ago, we’d pledged ourselves as mates before the pack. Then the Lycan King summoned him north.

He never even marked me.

Now, as I looked at him, my mind was a tangled web.

My wolf let out a faint, rebellious snarl, catching a tangle of scents on Ulrik’s trail that made its hackles rise.

Now Ulrik stood armored and alive, his jaw set in that familiar stubborn line.

declared Velda will join the Bloodmoon Pack. I’ll

snarled low in my ribs, scenting the musk of another female on

Velda was a warrior through and through. Will she kneel

cedar scent, laced with his Alpha aura,

me toward the throne, the tail of his

carried a sharp edge of anger. “She’ll be my second Luna, just

fist. The moonstone pendant

my heel. The rain pounding outside the Packhouse suddenly roared

were pheromones talking!” he roared, slit pupils narrowing as lightning

sword hissed free, the tip lifting my damp collar. “Look at your

admired her. I used my campaign merits to petition the Lycan King for her place here. As my mate. Truth is, I

reflected in the blade, memories flooding back of the East Wing collapse during

nights hauling basalt in the heat—Ulrik’s messengers always claimed

out, the cornflower seeds in the battle reports were never

‘admire’ her? What about the promises you made

Ulrik’s expression turned awkward.

to be mates, I hadn’t

in his eyes whenever

turned back to me. “She’s unlike any

like I’d swallowed a fly—disgusted, but I pushed

elder Alpha and Luna—they

father, as

agreed?