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Author: Willow·hai
One sentence froze every wolf in the hall.

I dug my nails into my palm to keep my head clear.

How could this happen?

I had warned Damian. With his experience and his skill, turning a losing fight was not hard for him.

No. I had to believe in him. He was the strongest warrior there was. Nothing would happen to him.

Adeline and Kieran had gone pale as well.

In the last life Damian had died too, but he had held the pack with his final breath.

Now the pack itself was about to be lost, and what good would the Alpha title do Kieran then?

The Alpha of Brightvale turned a sharp look on his younger son.

"Kieran! I have to lead the warriors out to meet them.

"You are the only son I have left. I want you to take the Alpha position now, become the new Alpha of Brightvale, and protect it. Can you do that?"

Kieran answered at once, "I can!"

Our kind has a tradition. A wolf who fails to wake his wolf at the age of maturity will always wake it on the night of his mating, at the hour when the moon is brightest. It is a blessing from the Moon Goddess.

Kieran and Adeline had both been waiting for that night.

He believed that if he could just hold out until midnight, his wolf would come.

Then even if his father could not hold the line, he could beat Shadowmoor himself.

But the hours crept past, and when the moonlight reached its fullest, nothing in either of them had changed.

The confidence drained out of their faces and left only panic behind.

The wolves below began to murmur.

"This hasn't happened in over a hundred years. Even the weakest wolf wakes an ordinary wolf and gets black eyes. What is wrong with those two?"

"Could it be that the Moon Goddess doesn't accept Kieran as Alpha?"

...

Kieran ground his teeth and gave an order to the warrior he trusted most.

"Bring the Council of Elders! If they speak for me, I can take the Alpha seat first, wolf or no wolf."

The warrior had barely answered when a deep voice rolled across the hall. "No need. All ten Elders of the Council are already here."

Delight spread over Kieran's face. The Council had never attended anyone's mating ceremony, and here were all ten of them at once.

Surely this meant the Council valued him!

He bowed respectfully.

"I ask the Elders to preside over my ceremony.

"My father and my brother are both outstanding warriors. My wolf is only waking a little late. In time I will be no worse than they are!

"And I am the only Alpha blood left. There is no one else who can be the new Alpha."

The Elder who had spoken kept his face calm.

"Every decision of the Council rests with the Grand Elder. After the last Grand Elder died of illness, the seat stood empty.

"Only last week did the Moon Goddess send down her word and choose the new Grand Elder.

"If the new Grand Elder approves your succession, we will of course preside."

Kieran could not contain himself. He asked at once, "Then who is the Grand Elder?"

His eager eyes swept across every face in the hall, desperate for this mysterious Grand Elder to speak on his behalf.

But my own gaze had gone to the back of the crowd.

At the very rear, one of Damian's men made the sign of a prayer at me.

That was the signal Damian and I had agreed on. He was telling me he was safe.

Quietly, I let out my breath.

The next second, under the eyes of the entire Council, I stepped slowly forward. "Kieran, I do not approve your succession as the new Alpha."
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