Author’s POVThe entire pack house was alive with noise.Servants rushed through the corridors carrying trays of jewelry, ceremonial cloths, flowers and silver bowls filled with sacred oils. Guards stood at every entrance dressed in formal black uniforms marked with the Alpha’s crest while voices echoed endlessly from room to room.Outside, the pack grounds had been transformed overnight. White banners bearing the Alpha bloodline symbol hung from pillars and balconies. Fresh flowers lined the pathways leading toward the ceremonial hall. Music drifted softly through the air from the musicians gathered below.Everything looked beautiful and perfect. And yet inside the dressing chambers prepared for the future Luna, tension stretched so tightly it felt ready to snap.“Where is it?”Isyra’s sharp voice cracked through the room like a whip. The maids jumped immediately.“The silver hair clip Henry gave me for my eighteenth birthday,” she snapped again, rising abruptly from her chair. “Wher
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