61: The Alpha's Mate

Mostly everyone had cleared out of the stadium, following the parade of the champions into the tent to feast or the fairgrounds too celebrate. I wished that I’d been able to see Nathan’s face when he found out that Sophie had won their bet. Better, I wish I could’ve seen her face when she rubbed it into his.

Instead, Dmitri and I were heading into the flurry of chaos at the center of the field. It was taboo to do a Mating Ceremony on Lupercalia, even though it was considered a celebration of fertility; it was like human’s who get married on Valentine’s Day. The ceremony was a lot like a wedding, but wolves weren’t usually extravagant about it.

It would have been nice to make it a private affair, but he was the Alpha and I was essentially royalty, making it impossible to do a quiet ceremony. There was no way to know how much time we had before word spread, beyond the pack, of my lineage. Fortunately, my celestial ties seemed to be a secret that only I k