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?”

is,” I said, my voice tinged with

the fading moon-mark on my neck. Moonlight from the bronze sconce cast wolf-shaped shadows on the starstone walls. “I’ll go to

blood blooming on my shirt. “I’ll use my family’s merits to ask him to

Lycan King won’t agree—he’ll be

foolish?” I smiled faintly. “If the Lycan King allowed Ulrik and Velda

as a deserter

Alpha bloodline—one of the mightiest packs in the shifter kingdom—I’d leave with my head

door. “Luna Adelaide, Luna Rosemary requests your

wolf and rose gracefully. “Let’s

Bloodmoon Pack’s plaza, the rain having ceased. Autumn wind swept toward the

the

Now it faded.

with the current king, nor seats

his brother Simon fought

Alpha’s brother remained in the pack, refusing to branch

dwindling members, Bloodmoon

at Luna Rosemary’s residence. She looked

obsidian sofa, her claws tapping the

Ulrik’s sister Sabrina, even the

I intoned, bowing to expose the healing mark

fur shimmering. “The northern

asked calmly, “Have you

her? She’s as

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