The Werewolf's Bride
He took her hand, lifted it high so every eye could see the matching scars, the living proof of their bond.
“There is more,” he said, voice softening, almost reverent. “The bridge carries new life. Our child.”
The hall went deathly still.
Then, explosion of sound. Howls of joy, fists pounding tables, betas surging forward to kneel or embrace or simply stare in awe. Someone started a chant, low, rhythmic, Bridge and Alpha, blood and bone, child of moon and stone.
Elara felt tears burn behind her eyes. She looked at Kael, saw the same emotion mirrored in his silver gaze, the fierce protectiveness that had always lived there now sharpened to something almost holy.