The Alpha's Forgotten Luna
"Genuinely, Wren. More than I deserve, and more than enough for now."
The vote, when it convened the following day, proved less certain than Rasmus had clearly anticipated — Kane's public stand, combined with the unexpected sight of Wren Thorne herself standing quietly at the back of the hall alongside Ronan, seemed to shift something in the assembled elders' calculations. Whispered conversations rippled through the chamber, old sympathy for a wronged Luna mixing uneasily with grudging respect for an Alpha who had, by every visible measure, genuinely changed.
The vote failed, narrowly, Rasmus's carefully built coalition crumbling under the weight of a room that had, in the end, found itself