Rejected by my Mate, Chosen by his Enemy
Haydee
The crown shattered against the ancient stone, and across the whole north, in the same breath, ten thousand years of fate let go.
I have been told what it was like, out there, in the hours after, from a hundred wolves in a hundred places, and I have put the pieces together into one picture I will carry to my grave. All across the territories, at the instant the crown broke, every fated bond that had ever been forced on anyone simply stopped being law.