And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Damian.

For days I stayed locked within that room, food being brought to me occasionally until at last, I was brought back before the Council and staring up at them and utter disbelief to what they were saying. My heart broke with every word as I realized there was nothing I could do.

"Damian, we find you guilty. However, judgment has been sent to your pack that, if for some reason, Ivy, your mate, the Luna of your pack, did in fact, kill those people, she can take your place during the reckoning."

The Grand Elder seemed almost robotic in nature as I watched him speak with no single sense of emotion; Alokaye smirking in the distance. His eyes trained on the Grand Elder as Allison's eyes were focused on me with utter disgust. What the hell was actually going on?

There was no way they could punish me for something I didn't do, and even though Ivy had done it, there was no way I would allow them to punish her. She was my mate, and I would protect her with my last dying breath.

All Ivy did was protect her people her pack and family-from those conspiring to cause them harm. It was what any Luna or Alpha would do in her situation.

are sentencing an innocent man to death while trying to hold that death over an innocent woman who

are a threat to our ways. We must stop them before they try to destroy us all by

stared at him with suspicion. "Are you suggesting the council declare war with the largest pack in

"Yes, actually. I am."

flooded the entire room, and with them, I thought surely this couldn't be the response they would agree upon. War was never the answer, and what happened wouldn't have been basis

action would you have?" the Grand Elder asked with a curious glint in his eyes as he

their weakest. The summer solstice. They will celebrate as packs always

do this. We are innocent. There are women and children there. They are all innocent

the false god. She is no