The Lycan King's Defiant Mate
The grief.
“Retrieve that scroll,” the King’s voice said, low and steady. “On the far end of that shelf.”
He was looking at it, rather than pointing. I fetched the scroll, thin but long.
When I brought it to him, the King unfurled it over the top of his desk, spread over documents and open books alike.
It was a map of the realm.
There were the werewolf territories, boundaries drawn between the claimed land, the Lycan palace at the heart of the kingdom– skirted by the capital city. In faint detail, there were also terrain shown.