Chapter 0016

“Linda”

“Olivia!”

A few other names were called as well, but none as loud as those two. They had to come from

prominent packs indeed, to have been allowed so many onlookers into the small crowd.

Elva, nervous by the noise, hid behind my skirt. I picked her up into my arms.

“Are you frightened?” I asked her.

She nodded.

“Don’t worry,” I said. “They just want to see you. They’re here to cheer for you,

“They aren’t saying my name.”

I kissed the side of her head. “They just don’t know it yet.”

When the royal family arrived to the stage, the camera crew came alive.

Elva.”

Nathan walked his way down the line of us girls. “Heads up, everyone. We’re about to start.”

her close as the director waved and the crowd erupted into

breath that lifted his

everyone for joining us. Those here in the crowd, and those

you to the selected candidates, any one of which

that is, the next

stepped forward, introducing themselves, the pack they

something about themselves.

a wealthy and successful pack. “I will

the

not to be outdone. Her pack was just as prominent. “I

of the crowd

smiled at Olivia, but it was too fight to

to hear. Nathan asked her to speak up but

on from

helped me hold the

of my less- prestigious pack. 1

the selection.”

me. They whispered and

leaned into the microphone.

at least earned a

her bottom lip with her teeth, as Nathan

I told her, but she still didn’t seem

a press conference further into the gardens.

Different cameras were aligned, facing them.

in folding chairs behind the cameras. Each had their hands

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