Chapter 21

Third Person’s POV

Velda smirked. “I can’t mimic her meekness. But if I were to pretend to be sweet and coo…”

She crossed her arms, forced a sugary grin, and drawled, “Honey…”

She shuddered dramatically. “Ugh, goosebumps! How does she stand being so

fake?”

Ulrik shuddered too, but the act reminded him of Adelaide her gentle voice always firm, her posture straight as a wolf’s pride

flag, never bending to please.

Velda strode onto the boardwalk, her combat boots tapping sharply.

It was a pity they couldn’t keep half her assets, but with Adelaide gone, Velda would be the undisputed Luna.

She no longer had to persuade herself with the title of “secondary mate.”

Ulrik stayed behind, sitting on a lakeside bench.

The parchment he received that afternoon blazed like a laser, piercing through his mental fog.

Memories, buried by battle and ambition, surfaced slowly–ripples on the lake bringing fragments to light.

He remembered the first time he saw Adelaide at a werewolf gathering, standing by a floor–to–ceiling window, conversing with

elders.

she sat on a leather sofa, twirling her father’s old badge.

breeders. Can you do

then, his heart

the wedding preparations, the emergency orders on

Adelaide at the pack borders, the

supposed to fully mark her in the bedroom, yet all he could do was watch her figure grow smaller

Northern

turn would come, and at that moment, he stopped thinking about Adelaide, focusing instead on strategizing

wolf, her claws bared

realized female

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scarves and handmade cooldes as relics of a parallel

compressed rations, he preferred listening to Velda analyze enemy fortifications, watching

the sand, her eyes

shared her beliefs: female wolves needed no special protection–strength was

battle plans, her unwavering gaze–she

understood, was safeguarded by the blood of

forgot the seven graves in Frostfang’s cemetery, bearing Adelaide’s family

to Frostfang, Adelaide walked past

and the Alpha and Beta residences

those that refused to wash away, had been covered with

called in favors from distant clan

Halsey and Adelaide strolled the

be lively and bustling, but now it

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