LOGINEthan rushed over to him and hugged him. Alaric leaned down to return the hug at once.I was close enough to hear Ethan say, “I love you, Dad.”“I love you, too, Ethan,” Alaric said easily, as he smiled.Ethan pulled away from the hug almost as quickly as he gave it, then turned and ran off, joining
Cara’s POVSo many pack members wanted to attend the coronation that we needed to hold it outside in a large park. Even with as big as the space was, many of the neighboring streets needed to be closed to accommodate the massive crowd that arrived for the event.Loud speakers and cameras had been se
Noel’s POVShortly after the commissioner and Lilia were arrested, Landon and I left the BloodyMoon pack and started traveling again.My goodbye to Cara had been brief, just a simple exchange of words and a hug she had initiated. I still felt some pain, thinking of the dreams I had for us. What I fe
Georgie’s POVWith the head commissioner sentenced to prison, the entire Princess Competition fell apart. It was sad to see, I thought, as it was because of that competition that I had been able to leave my smaller pack and travel the whole of the continent.My people were meant to roam, and this co
I showed him in and led him to the back patio where the Claw sisters and Ryan had been waiting. When Ryan saw Clyde, his expression mirrored what mine must have been, paling.“These are the ones?” Clyde asked, looking between Ryan and me. “Wolves are so small.”“They are good men,” Claudia said. “We
Aidan’s POVI wasn’t upset about the competition’s end. It had been a nightmare to watch, worried about my sister so much. I still thought Cara was being reckless. Just because Eamon and Alaric had given her support didn’t mean any of us had to like the danger she had been putting herself in.Thank
“You think she’s been poisoned?” Eamon said, already pulling out his phone. I watched as he dialed for emergency.“Drugged, at the least,” Landon said.“But how?” I asked. As Eamon was already working to ensure that Claudia would be tended to medically, the rest of us were left trying to determine h
Alaric’s POVThe ring was likely the way Lilia was poisoning her opponents, pricking them while they were forced to shake her hand before her matches. Yet without being able to attain the ring and hold it high for everyone to see it, any accusation would likely not work.When Cara told me that Charl
Cara’s POVEamon called me into his office first thing one morning. After the competition ended, things had more or less settled down. I returned to working as a Beta. Alaric stayed in the house, continuing to work remotely as Alpha from the office, though he commuted more often now that the danger
“I had to see you,” he said. “And tell you how wonderful you are doing.”The whole situation with Lilia had me so much on edge that I found it hard to relax, even now in the arms of my beloved. I swayed forward into his arms nonetheless and, closing my eyes, tried to find peace in the steady beat of







