Rejected and Pregnant I Fled The Pack
She nodded slowly, and began.
"My previous pack's Alpha died six months ago," she said. "Natural causes, nothing suspicious, though what followed proved considerably more sinister. Succession should have passed to his eldest daughter, Kira—capable, respected, genuinely prepared for leadership. But another candidate emerged, Damian, the man you spoke with at the border. He claimed formal challenge rights, contested the succession through what he insisted were legitimate pack traditions."
"And the council allowed this challenge," I asked, understanding the significance of formal process being invoked despite whatever violence had apparently followed.