SpenserIt still felt so unreal. I came back after giving up my title and my pack thinking I would join the army and just live a solitary life if she didn’t want me. I made peace with that fact. I believed it to be fact. I believed that the damage done was too great and that Alison would never be able to forgive me. I believed she would never be able to trust me, never mind love me.I sat listening to her father as he paced back and forth, and she told him about her conversation with Ralph and I would never admit it out loud, but I was a little jealous. Ralph was the one who finally made her realize that she was in love with me. It wasn’t because of the mate bond, or something I did. Ralph, who I knew was also in love with Alison, convinced her to give me a chance.RalphI leaned against the wall as my heart shattered. I had been eavesdropping and hearing how happy her father was that she finally saw how much Spenser loved her. It just shattered me. I loved her. She already broke my h

AlisonMy father walked me down the passage to the chapel and I felt butterflies flapping their wings inside my stomach! We followed all the laws that had to be followed to make this official and legal, but tweaked some of it where it wouldn’t affect any of the legalities. Our mating ceremony was a new beginning for our kingdom and Spenser and I wanted it to be unique, but legal.The double doors opened and as I walked in, guided by my father, my emotions overwhelmed me. I didn’t know if I should be laughing or crying for joy. It was a moment I didn’t allow myself to think I would ever have. I hoped, but I always told myself not to. When Spenser threw me away, I thought it was over.I believed I would never have love. I believed I would never have the chance to be happy. I never in my wildest dreams imagined I would be the queen about to get mated and face the possibility of the perfect future. My eyes met Spenser’s and I saw the love he felt. A love he had proven to me over and over,

AlisonAll through the passages, people were preparing for the fight. I made sure our weakest people were moved into the castle that had been turned into a fortress, while Spenser made sure that the army was prepared. A short while later, we moved out with me in the front to meet our enemy. This was the part of our lives that I had come to despise.Why couldn’t our kind just live in peace? Why were we constantly fighting over territory or power?! It had to be a male thing, surely! I couldn’t imagine females fighting like that just to gain more. We made our way to the northern border and in the distance, I could hear the howls coming through the forest. Something told me this wasn’t going to be a huge war that lasted for many years.If it was me, I would bring my entire army and fight once, whether I won or lost. I wouldn’t drag my people through a twenty-year war, but then again, I guess nobody planned for a war to last that long. They broke through the brush, and we got our first sig

OtsanaThings weren’t going according to plan! First, they killed the king that said he would marry me as soon as we won the war. Then they invited us to this ridiculous celebration where they could celebrate winning right in our faces, and lastly, that damn wench had to rub it in my face that she was now Spenser’s mate!I really hated her! I hated her more than I could put into words. I wanted to scratch her eyes out, cut out her tongue and feed the rest of her to some creature!! I could see why the old king wanted her killed, and cursed the person who didn’t follow through! If Alison was never here, Spenser would have been mine, and we would have had a happy life together!There had to be some way I could still salvage things. There had to be some way for me to win back Spenser and to get rid of that … thing he called a mate!AlisonI never trusted that woman, so when Ralph and his pretty little mate came to inform me that Otsana was trying to spread poison about me, I wasn’t surpri

AlisonSpenser was still a little weak, but he was growing stronger every day. Otsana was locked away and, as far as I knew, she didn’t know that Spenser was alive. I wasn’t ready to give her the relief of knowing she hadn’t killed him.Spenser kept asking me when I was ready to commit to a trial, but to do that I had to change the charge. Spenser’s trip had been cancelled for now, which was really messing with his plans. With our plans. We needed to cement his rule of the northern kingdom before one of their pack decided to take over.Sadly, I couldn’t leave her down in the cells forever. I couldn’t pretend that she no longer existed. The pack was beginning to talk. Then the day came that one of the guards wasn’t thinking and Otsana found out that Spenser was still alive. Alison was relieved when the news reached her that Otsana no longer had access to their pack link.“She is driving the northerners crazy, Alison.” Spenser growled in frustration. He could hear Otsana clearly as she