THE SUBSTITUTE MATE FOR THE ALPHA KING
He stared at the empty path where the bear had been, then down at me, his expression one of utter, stunned disbelief.
“By the gods,” he breathed. “What did you do?”
I pushed myself up, pulling a sobbing Elisse into my arms. “I told it the truth,” I whispered, holding my daughter close. “It was all I had left.”
We continued our journey, the encounter with the bear leaving us shaken but unharmed. The path began to level out, and the Citadel, which had been a distant dream, now loomed before us, its iron-banded gates massive and imposing, set into the living rock of the mountain itself.
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