Rejected: The Alpha's Fatal Mistake
She'd certainly never expected to ride toward it herself, at the head of her own delegation, wearing a seal that had waited three generations for someone worth wearing it.
Wren had changed considerably more than the architecture had.
"You're doing the thing," Sable said, riding close beside her, older now, sharper around the eyes in the way five years of real responsibility did to a person, but still exactly as willing to needle Wren about her tells as she'd been the night of the Moon Ceremony that started all of this. Sable had stayed Nightshade's second through all of it — through the ascension, through the alliance-building, through two proposals from perfectly nice Ironfang wolves that s