Amber’s POV I closed my eyes for a minute then opened them again. I couldn’t find the right words to convey my feelings so I simply kept my mouth shut. “You should see him before he leaves,” Alpha Dale continued. “Once he leaves, I don’t think his schedule will allow him to take any break for the mean time. And you know what is happening in a few days, right?” I smiled softly. How could I forget? Alpha Dale was finally going to announce to everyone in the entire werewolf community that I was his Luna and claim me in front of a whole lot of people. Something like that couldn’t easily be forgotten. When we got to the mansion, I was surprised when Alpha Dale kept driving, taking a path that led to the forest at the back of the mansion until eventually, we were looking out over an entire valley. I had never been here before and the view of Free City from here was so incredibly stunning that for a minute I thought Alpha Dale was trying to be romantic until he shut off the car engine
Amber’s POV The trial lasted for five whole hours and in the end Marcus and Lydia were both found guilty of treason, automatically proving Yeti’s innocence. Alpha Dale’s mother was not happy about how things turned out of course, but I know no one really cared what she thought, except Graves of course who followed her everywhere like a housefly. I tried to catch Noah’s attention as we left the conference hall, but he stalked ahead of us all, hurrying off back to the mansion like a cat was on his heel. I didn’t blame him, this whole thing must be hard for him. I felt sad that he had to recount his experience with is fated mate’s death in the presence of all of those people and someone like the former Luna couldn’t even spare him any sympathy. As much as I wanted to run after him and comfort him to the best of my abilities, I didn’t. Right now, they were a lot of eyes on me and one misstep could land me in a heap of problem even if I wasn’t doing anything wrong. Plus, I was sure N
Amber’s POV Alpha Dale’s mother looked a lot like you would imagine a woman who was once the Luna of the werewolf community would like. I had seen her before, thanks to the framed photo of her in Alpha Dale’s room back at the mansion. In the photo, Alpha Dale had been standing in between his father and his mother and they had been smiling so widely. There was none of that smile on the face of the woman in front of me. Alpha Dale had intervened as soon as his mother came on to me. I had no idea where he came out of but I was guessing he had sensed my distress and like an angel, came to my rescue. He had taken me out of there without sparing her a single glance or giving me any time to say any greeting to her. But I was a little relieved but also felt a little bad that we were treating his family this way. First, his uncle was in a dungeon underground and his mother was… well, what was she exactly? Now, I was sitting across from her in a round table. Why was the trial a round ta
Amber’s POV The trial was in two hours! And that wasn’t even half of the gist. Apparently, the Council weren’t the only ones who will be sitting in on the trial. The Luna Dowager was going to be there as well. I was not only shellshocked at finding out a person like that existed, I was also ashamed of the fact that I had no idea Alpha Dale’s mother was still alive. All I could do was stand there and blink at Janine who broke the news to me. I could tell that she was trying not to laugh at the mini crisis I was having. “You didn’t think he didn’t have a mother, did you?” I shrugged, giving her a sheepish look. “Ah… no one ever mentioned her and the story was that Alpha Dale became Alpha following the death of the previous Lycan King, his father. I guess I just assumed she was dead as well.” I groaned as I realized how that sounded and apologized, although I had no idea what exactly I was apologizing for. I had a million things to apologize for right now and Janine wasn’t even wh
Dale’s POV The meeting with the experts was less frustrating than sitting in a room with Council members, but it was still an exercise on restraints. All of them wanted to be heard but had nothing to say. They knew nothing and were simply eager to waste my time and resources which I had poured into getting them to be here in the first fucking place. “It is not that we don’t believe you, Lycan King, but it’s just that all of this is very hard to take in. Hounds? This isn’t a fairytale or a fantasy movie –” “I’m going to stop you right there before you say something that gets you killed before you even know it,” Kevin said, cutting in. The man who had been talking, I think his name was Milos Stone stared over at him before flicking his eyes in my direction, finally sensing that he might have worded things on the disrespectful side. I was sure I looked nothing but bored, but he still gulped when his eyes landed on me. “I don’t think it is that difficult for us to get you a specim
Amber’s POV Noah and Janine were doing better than I imagined. Their wolves were stronger and according to Janine, far more experienced than mine. It didn’t take long for all their injuries to heal but that amount of energy spent to heal their bodies meant they needed to eat a truck load of food. And they did just that. Beta Trent provided them, especially Janine, with every kind of food there was. I didn’t fail to notice that he was extra attentive to Janine more than anyone else. Well, she was his mate after all and he almost lost her. I couldn’t even bear to think what he was going through now, what he went through before. But there was something I knew for sure, something had changed between us and I knew it was due to the fact that I had helped him save Janine’s life. “I want to go and see the prisoner,” I said suddenly. “I can’t shake the feeling that she’s important somehow and the fact that Silas kind of okayed her given how thorough he is with following the details make