Chapter 9

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Adelaide’s POV

din,

Beata rushed in, her green eyes glistening with tears.

“Your love is your business, but don’t bully Luna Adelaide–or flaunt your battle merits!”

“Insolent wretch!” Velda roared, her warrior presence crashing down like a boulder.

“SLAP!”

Ulrik’s iron–clad paw struck Beata’s face with a crack. “Is this the Omega you’ve raised? Defiance?”

I sprinted to Beata’s side, catching her as her cheek swelled, flushed unnaturally–Alpha pheromones burning her tender glands.

Turning, I summoned my wolf. My knuckles burst into silver–gray claws.

A howling slash raked Ulrik’s cheek, five shallow trenches flipping flesh open, blood droplets falling like rubles.

“Touch my people again, and feel my claws deeper,” I growled, my claws dripping silver–blue blood.

Ulrik staggered back, pupils slitting with pain, cedar musk souring with sulfur.

His wounds healed swiftly, leaving five pink scars branded beneath his eye.

“You dare…” His voice mixed with a suppressed howl, muscles under his iron armor taut as bowstrings.

off the blood from my wolf claws, the

rising in

musk soured with fury almost tangible, then turned

the moonstone tiles, the gust from his departure scattering the

Beata’s swollen cheek. “Does it

her eyes glistening. “Soon we’ll be free of

at her bruised

had promised the decree dissolving our mate

moment in Bloodmoon felt like

bonding ceremony was set for October. Now in August,

I and Vanya, Ulrik’s aunt and the

but Rosemary summoned me to the family council, no doubt to pressure me

ceremony with Frostfang’s wealth.

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Vanya slapped the ledger onto the table, her tone icy. “Velda’s parents expect compensation for

ceremony.”

shifter finds their mate and joins their pack, tradition dictates the mate’s family or original pack receives payment for

loss.

a million. Bloodmoon’s

ledger, frowning “Who’s managing the

I

head up.

said. “Rosemary’s meds alone cost thousands

Ulrik, her gaze cutting. “Your grandfather’s legacy? It barely covers the Alpha family’s

relied on Adelaide’s Frostfang

unconvinced, pushing the ledger away. “You’re just stonewalling. I’ll find another

merits.”

used to propose to Velda? If you two are so

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