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.

will join the

low in my ribs, scenting the

through and through.

as I finished speaking, Ulrik’s cedar scent, laced with

the tail of his sword scabbard scraping water-soaked stone and scraping up dark red

voice carried a sharp edge of anger. “She’ll be my second Luna, just like you—equal in

snapped in my fist. The moonstone pendant clattered

The Moon Goddess would rage, and Bloodmoon would weaken…” I ground the shattered gem beneath my heel. The rain pounding outside the Packhouse suddenly roared in my ears. “Last year, on this day, you swore before her statue that my eyes were

talking!” he roared, slit pupils narrowing as

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

the blade, memories flooding back of the

basalt in the heat—Ulrik’s messengers always claimed war

out, the cornflower seeds in the

promises you made before you left for the northern tribes? You said if I fulfilled my duties as

Ulrik’s expression turned awkward.

mates, I hadn’t met Velda yet. You were always suited to be a Luna… and now, I need something

tenderness in his

back to me. “She’s unlike any

but I

Alpha and

My father, as former Alpha,

agreed?

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