THE MATE HE COULDN'T CLAIM
It wasn’t just my voice—it was the echo of every Matron wolf before me, filling the chamber, rattling the stone walls, shaking the doubters down to their bones.
When the sound died, silence crushed us all.
I staggered to my feet, chest heaving, the Crest still blazing against my palm. Around me, wolves bowed their heads one by one. Caleb’s eyes burned as he lowered his gaze. Asha knelt with her fists pressed to the ground. Even the rogues who had mocked me earlier bent the knee.
All but one.
A man with scars across his jaw and shoulders—his name was Brannic, a rogue fighter who had challenged me since the moment I’d entered the mountains—stepped forward, sneering.
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