Alpha's Secret Mate
But Father, like I, remembered the way The Witch had eyed my mother.
So Father went to Opal Hill, wore the ashes of his wife and daughter upon his face in the way his forefathers had in the days of old, and slew the Alpha of Opal Hill and all those that had fought for him.
By the time the fires had cleared, the land was indeed barren like her vision save for their heretic temple, Theron's wounded Beta, and The Witch who had started it all. The Witch had begged, pleaded for him to spare the Beta—called her friend, mother, lover, and sister—called her all manner of words given to women in praise. Shielded her body with her own.