Chapter 3

Adelaide’s POV

Beata brought the Frostfang asset list. “You’ve covered six million in Bloodmoon’s operating costs this year alone. The mines, houses, estates? untouched. All of Luna Airella’s bank accounts and property deeds are locked in the vault.”

I stared at the list. Airella had prepared all this to ensure my happiness—how heartbreaking my current situation must be to her memory.

My wolf whined, pain lancing through me.

“Where can we even go, Adelaide?” Beata asked. “Back to Frostfang?”

The memory of Frostfang’s plaza, slick with blood, flashed before my eyes.

My heart clenched. “Anywhere’s better than here.”

“But won’t Ulrik be thrilled if we leave?” Beata fumed.

“Let him,” I said flatly. “Staying here would mean a lifetime of watching them fawn over each other. Beata, Frostfang’s down to me. I need to live well—to honor my parents and brothers. The Moon Goddess will watch over us.”

“Adelaide!” Beata sobbed.

I knew her pain—everyone she loved had died in Frostfang’s massacre.

“Is there no another way at all?”

voice tinged with a wolfish

moon-mark on my neck. Moonlight from the bronze sconce cast wolf-shaped

my finger on the temporary mark, silver-blue blood blooming on my shirt. “I’ll use my family’s merits

King won’t agree—he’ll be furious. He has powers beyond shifters. Don’t

faintly. “If the Lycan King allowed Ulrik

leave as a deserter or

bloodline—one of the mightiest packs in

Luna Rosemary

her wolf and rose gracefully. “Let’s go,” she

plaza, the rain having ceased.

a gift from the

Now it faded.

sway with the current king, nor seats in the royal

his brother Simon fought for the Lycan

in the pack, refusing to branch

members, Bloodmoon

at Luna

an obsidian sofa, her claws tapping the armrest

were present—Simon and his mate Tamara, Ulrik’s sister Sabrina, even the

I intoned,

her silver fur shimmering. “The northern winds have finally returned your mate.

calmly, “Have

faltered, then resumed. “Met her? She’s as rough as sandstone, though her looks

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