Alpha’s Blood Mate
I gave him a small nod to keep going.
“Okay, good. So Edemas had kids, and they could shift, but that ability started fading with each new generation. Especially in the royal line, they kept choosing human mates. The werewolf traits got weaker every time. Some of Edemas’s own children couldn’t even shift at all. Edemas hated seeing the bloodline diluted like that, so he took a concubine—a full shifter woman—and started having kids with her to get more pure-blooded heirs. That decision created problems he never saw coming. The concubine’s family started calling themselves the true pureblood line, while Edemas’s legal wife and her children were labeled half-breeds. Tension built fast.