All Chapters of Alpha Kael's Vengeful Bride: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Lyra's Pov“You will announce us tonight, won’t you?”I kept my smile in place as the question left my lips, but my heart was beating too hard to let me feel calm. Across me was Cassian Thorn, he adjusted the cuff of his black formal coat and gave me the charming look that had once made every girl in Black Hollow jealous. Tonight was the Blood Moon Ascension Ball, and everyone in the pack knew what was supposed to happen. A mating announcement at midnight while I as the future Luna standing beside the man I had loved since I was sixteen.The pack tradition demands that if a royal blood finds her mate on the night she clocks eighteen, she would be given the mantle of leadership but if she is unable to, she won't be able to lead the pack again in her lifetime.Cassian touched my hand, though not tightly enough to settle the sudden unease in my chest. “You worry too much,” he said in a low voice, like I was being foolish for asking. “Just enjoy the night, Lyra.” His words should

Lyra’s Pov I heard the words. I understood them. I simply could not make them real inside my head. Someone near the back dropped a goblet, the sound hitting hard across the hall. My aunt gasped loudly in shock. “This can't be true..” Elder Marrow sputtered. My eyes instinctively turned to Selene abd her face was blood red. Cassian stared at Kael like he had gone mad. Only Alpha Magnus found his voice first. "You cannot be serious." "I do not make jokes in public." Kael blurted. I finally stepped back on instinct. "What?" Kael continued. "A one-year contract marriage under Nightfang law. In return, Black Hollow receives military protection along the eastern border, immediate suspension of its current war debt, free herbs from Nightfang and the signed alliance you begged for." My uncle's mouth opened in shock, then shut. He had not denied begging for the alliance because that would have been another lie too easy to expose. The elders started speaking at once