CHAPTER 16

LEO’S POV

Elder Ivan Norwick. A man in his late fifties with a bald head and amber eyes. He was a beta and one of the seven elders of the Blood Moon Pack. He was my father’s right-hand man before his demise. My father seemed to have trusted that man so much to have given him the title of a right-hand man. But he never liked us, especially my mother. He was always wary of us. He, however, held Xavier in high esteem and he would gladly support him. I was pretty sure he had a hand in this and would likely work with Xavier to ensure I never ascended the throne. He has been in support of Xavier ascending the throne from the very beginning.

The look of disgust he cast at my side during lunch with my father or was the way he reprimanded me with an iron fist and patted Xavier on the head? All of that was enough to tell that he hated me and had never approved of me.

He had called my mother a slut on one occasion and I had lost it. I would have torn him limb by limb if my father hadn’t interve