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.

the blood from my wolf claws, the fur on my fingertips receding. “Consider this a

in her throat,

locked eyes with me, cedar musk soured with fury almost tangible, then turned and dragged Velda away. His boot

moonstone tiles, the gust from his departure scattering the

swollen cheek. “Does

glistening. “Soon we’ll be

her bruised face, my throat

decree dissolving our mate bond was imminent–but how

Bloodmoon

Now in August, the Bloodmoon elders buzzed

aunt and the former Alpha’s mate, could

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

ceremony with Frostfang’s wealth.

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council hall, Vanya slapped the ledger onto the table, her

ceremony.”

tradition dictates

loss.

parents want a million. Bloodmoon’s accounts

the ledger, frowning “Who’s managing the

am,” I said

snapped his head up. “Where’s the

pack isn’t a goldmine,” Vanya said. “Rosemary’s meds alone cost thousands daily.

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

We’ve relied on Adelaide’s Frostfang assets

“You’re just stonewalling. I’ll

merits.”

Velda? If you two are

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