Prologue

We’ve been born and bred for this purpose, the purpose of battle.

Our pack was called the Lacuna pack and we resided just east of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, we were close enough to the Labrador sea to enjoy watching the waters from our pack castle but surrounded by lush green woodlands in summer, only to be buried in snow in winter.

The climate here in winter could be brutal for anyone even not human, so I couldn’t understand why my father, alpha Warrick would have agreed to have pack Solasta’s alpha, his son and five hundred warriors come over to us on a ship from Greenland to discuss a future alliance and training program between our packs.

We were literally a month away from our winters which would seal off any ships being to travel to and from our borders and theirs, in my opinion it was ridiculous and callus, but I was not the alpha and my brother Sean, who was next in line to take the position of alpha sided with my father on this issue as always.

I hated being the daughter of an alpha, the responsibilities and pressures that were placed on our shoulders, both my brother and mine from a very young age was overwhelming.

Our pack was well known for its strength in combat, we were a large pack of 3000 strong, no room for weakness only for dominance.

My father knew that with such a large pack that he was constantly under threat, so forming an alliance with alpha Dimitri just made sense I guess.

The whole intention and purpose of being the strongest pack meant that both my father and mother had to be warriors themselves, luna Blythe was a strong warrior, a sensual woman and yet managed to be a loving mother.

But being a warrior came first and always would, Sean and I had been taught that from day one.

I felt myself being suffocated by the mere concept of helping my brother rule this kingdom when my father decided to step down, Sean was twenty years old and I was eighteen, neither one of us had found our mates.

This seemed to bother Sean more than it bothered me, he really wanted one whereas I didn’t. Not having a mate however did pose a problem once our father stepped down, because Sean would need a strong warrior by his side, our pack was very large.

So with that in mind I knew that I would have to give up any and all freedom I thought I might have had once he found his mate until such time as he actually did. And I would gladly do it, he was my brother and in many ways my best friend, at the end of the day the main responsibility was going to fall on him not me, I was in charge of helping six other castle warriors train our own fighters and my father made sure that I was treated exactly the same as the six others, no exceptions, even when they were all men. I still had to hold my own.

I’m a warrior, I’m a warrior, I’m a warrior- I kept telling myself over and over again in my mind, hoping that one day I would actually believe it instead of pretend it. This was my life, devoted to the cause, a fighter, a good little soldier to my father, the alpha of Lacuna pack.