A Female Alpha’s Revenge

Chapter 53

Velda’s POV

I stared at Adelaide’s composed face, my throat welling with a question, “Why hide those matters?”

Adelaide lightly flicked her ear tips, cedar pheromones blending with the crisp scent. “It’s merely pack business, hardly worth mentioning. Nothing to talk about.”

Confusion crossed Abbot’s face, and he blurted out, “Dissolved mate bond? Why dissolve it?”

I lowered my gaze, releasing submissive pheromones laced with mint and feigned grievance. I said. “After the Bloodscar victory, Lycan Erasmus approved my joining to the Bloodmoon Pack Jand permitted me and Alpha Ulrik’s bonding. Miss Davidson was upset, so she requested to sever her bond with Alpha Ulrik.”

My words, while not the full story, weren’t lies.

Naturally, I omitted the part about using merits to seek Lycan Erasmus’s approval for the mate bond.

I wanted the Gamma wolves present to see Adelaide as domineering, defying the Lycan Erasmus’s decree.

Adelaide met my gaze, her silver–blue pupils reflecting the candlelight. “You two sought a mate bond via merits. When Ulrik returned, his first words were to ask me to let go. If your love is true, I requested Lycan Erasmus to dissolve our bond–to grant your wish. After all, tradition holds that each werewolf may have but one mate.

Abbot’s hands suddenly shifted into sharp wolf claws:

He shattered the armrest of his chair, his pheromones storming like a tempest. He roared, “Absurd! Using merits not to strengthen the pack but to secure a lover?, Ulrik, you’re an oathbreaker!”

Ulrik’s focus locked onto Adelaide, cedar pheromones mingling with sulfur–a sign of turbulent

emotions.

mention of our bond stirred fresh strife, and

I sensed his irritation with Adelaide for not prior

“Our merits earned us Lycan King’s permission to bond. It doesn’t strip her Luna

wolf–head pendant gleamed coldly in the firelight. She said, “The Frostfang Pack has its

+8. Pearls

Chapter 53

“Yes, your father and brothers‘ merits ensure

“Yes, their merits mean I’ll never want for anything. Isn’t that just

can’t compare. We must risk our lives to earn recognition. What

enough. They sacrificed their lives to protect the wolf kingdom. I’m proud of

I dared

fists, armored in hardened scales, shattered the air

cheek, the air filled with pine

that instant, Ulrik’s pupils

ice shards sprayed as I smelled two

your Luna. Yet

punch carried

instantly,

you lost your mind? This isn’t the Frostfang Pack!” I lunged forward, my hardened nails slicing my palm. My

when Abbot turned to me,