Killian’s POV
"Worry not elders, the Alpha has chosen me as his mate."
Lovena’s voice rang through the council room like a cracked bell, loud, shameless, and utterly delusional.
The Elders glanced at one another, expressions shifting between surprise and satisfaction, as though she had just spoken the prophecy they'd been waiting for.
I turned to her slowly, the urge to laugh replaced by a dangerous silence. Was she insane?
She took my silence as permission to continue.
“We all know,” she began confidently, “that my father was Lord Wolfe's father's Beta. Both our parents wanted us to get married. They wanted me to be Luna. My father taught me everything about pack politics, the inner workings of the court, and how to serve and lead.”
Her eyes gleamed as rose up from her seat like a politician selling lies.
“If not for my illness, we would have been mated by now. But I’m back and I’m here to take full responsibility,” she finished with a bright, triumphant smile.
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