FORTY SEVEN

ALICE

As the days progressed, it became increasingly clear that happiness would be a rarity if I stayed with Declan. If we even survived heat season. The worry took away my sleep and my mother's words started to get to me. I wasn't going to end up with absolutely nothing. I refused to succumb to such a fate. Staying with Declan was only going to give him a title and with the way things were progressing between us, I doubted that was even an advantage to me anymore. So I did as my mom has advised. Whatever it took to secure my happily ever after. Except, I added a twist of my own. I wasn't going to just do everything in my power to end up as some miserable Luna to some gay Alpha. I was going to do everything in my power to get the better man. I made an order while the preparations for the next pack meeting were going on. It was a hectic time for the servants around. If the Gardenia was doing pack meetings in the confines of the Gardenia mansion, it meant something important was going t