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.

Lycan King’s declared Velda will join the Bloodmoon Pack. I’ll mark

low in my ribs, scenting the musk of another female

swore Velda was a warrior through and through. Will

with his Alpha

toward the throne, the tail of his sword scabbard

carried a sharp edge of

fist. The moonstone

would rage, and Bloodmoon would weaken…” I ground the shattered gem beneath my heel. The rain pounding outside the Packhouse

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

damp collar. “Look at your neck. Even the temporary mark’s

sheathed the blade with a metallic sigh. “Velda and I fought side by side in the north. I admired her. I used my campaign

blade, memories flooding back

in the heat—Ulrik’s messengers always claimed war

out, the cornflower seeds in the battle reports

made before you left for the northern tribes? You said if I fulfilled my duties as Bloodmoon’s Luna, you’d

Ulrik’s expression turned awkward.

“Let’s just forget those words. When we pledged to be mates, I hadn’t met Velda yet. You were always suited to be a Luna…

in his eyes whenever he spoke of

to me. “She’s unlike any she-wolf I’ve

swallowed a fly—disgusted, but I pushed through the lump in my

elder Alpha

It’s the Lycan King’s decree. My father, as former Alpha,

actually agreed? How

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