“Aria disguised herself to win the alpha title. But when Cassian discovers her secret, their rivalry turns into a fairy tale love story. "Will the ambition for the Alpha title or her first love win?”
View MoreAria's POVCaspian stayed for a week, observing pack operations and learning what my daily responsibilities actually involved. He attended council meetings, watched me mediate disputes between pack members, and accompanied me on territorial patrol rounds."You handle the politics differently than I expected," he said on the fourth day as we reviewed resource allocation proposals."How so?""You're more direct. Less concerned about diplomatic niceties, more focused on practical outcomes.""That's because these are my people. I don't need to maintain careful political relationships when everyone involved has known me since childhood.""But they're also evaluating you more critically because they knew you before you became Alpha heir.""True. Every decision gets compared to how my father would have handled it, or how a male heir might have approached the situation.""Does that bother you?""Sometimes. But it also motivates me to prove that my approach produces results worth the departure
Aria's POVWe ended up in my private study, a room that felt less formal than the greeting hall but still carried the weight of pack leadership responsibilities. Maps, reports, and correspondence covered my desk in organized chaos."This is where I spend most of my time," I said, gesturing around the space. "Managing territorial agreements, reviewing pack business, corresponding with regional authorities.""And with me," Caspian added."And with you."He settled into one of the chairs, looking around the room with the kind of attention that suggested he was trying to understand who I was in this environment."It's different from the Academy," he observed."Everything's different from the Academy. There, I was trying to prove I could succeed in a male environment. Here, I'm trying to prove that female leadership serves pack interests as well as traditional approaches.""How's that going?""Better than I expected. The territorial agreement with Shadowpine Pack helped establish credibili
Caspian's POVThe journey to Silver Moon territory took three days, giving me plenty of time to question whether this visit was wisdom or foolishness."You're nervous," Riven observed from the seat across from me in the transport vehicle. He'd insisted on accompanying me, claiming I needed a witness to whatever happened next."I'm cautious.""You're terrified that the person you meet won't match the person you've been corresponding with.""That's possible.""It's also possible that she'll exceed your expectations."I stared out the window at passing landscapes that grew more familiar as we approached territories I'd studied in Academy coursework but never visited."What if I can't get past the deception?" I asked. "What if seeing her in her actual environment just reminds me that everything between us was built on lies?""Then you'll know, and you can stop wondering.""That's not particularly comforting.""Truth rarely is. But it's better than continued uncertainty."The transport cro
Aria's POVThe correspondence with Caspian became a routine over the following weeks. Letters exchanged every few days, filled with updates about pack responsibilities, leadership challenges, and the gradual process of learning to trust each other again.His latest letter sat on my desk, opened but not yet fully processed.*The pressure of returning home is different than I expected. Everyone has opinions about what I should prioritize, how I should handle territorial disputes, which traditions I should maintain versus which I should reform. It's exhausting trying to balance what my pack expects with what I learned at the Academy.*I understood that pressure intimately. The Silver Moon Pack had accepted my leadership role, but acceptance didn't mean universal enthusiasm. Every decision I made was scrutinized through the lens of whether female leadership was proving itself viable."How's the correspondence going?" my father asked, entering my office where I'd been reviewing territorial
Lyra's POVThe memorial stone for my brother Marcus had been placed in the Academy's remembrance garden three weeks after the truth about the conspiracy was revealed. Simple granite, engraved with his name and the dates that marked his too-short life.I stood in front of it now, trying to find the right words for a conversation I'd been avoiding since learning he was gone."They replaced you," I said finally. "With someone who looks like you, sounds like you, probably even has some of your memories. But they're sending him home to our pack as if nothing happened."The stone didn't answer, which was somehow more painful than if it had."I wanted to stop them. To tell our parents the truth, to expose the replacement before he could infiltrate our family. But Aria convinced me that protecting our pack from deception isn't the same as protecting them from grief."Saying her name out loud felt strange after weeks of processing the revelation about her identity. The person I'd known as "Ari
Aria's POVThree days after sending the letter to Caspian, I was beginning to regret the impulse that had made me write it in the first place."You're pacing again," my father observed from his desk where he was reviewing territorial agreements."I'm thinking.""You're worrying about whether young Stormbane will respond to your letter.""Am I that transparent?""Only to people who've known you your entire life."I stopped pacing and dropped into the chair across from him. "What if he doesn't respond? What if I've pushed too hard, revealed too much about how I feel?""Then you'll have learned something important about what's possible between you.""That's not particularly comforting.""Leadership decisions rarely are. But uncertainty is better than continued avoidance."He was right, though I wasn't ready to admit it out loud. The letter had been a risk, exposing feelings I'd been trying to keep controlled while I focused on pack responsibilities."The territorial agreement with Shadow
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