The Alpha Rejected Me, His Father Claimed Me
"It asked nothing of me thirty years ago, when I met my first Luna. It has asked nothing of me tonight."
Somewhere behind her, Aeloria heard a cup hit the floor and shatter. No one moved to clean it up. Every face in that hall was turned toward the second-tier table, dozens of Alphas and dignitaries who had traveled days for polite diplomacy now watching something considerably less polite unfold in front of them.
"I am Kaelen Ashveil," he said, "once Alpha King of Blood Moon Pack, and I claim Aeloria Aurora as my fated mate, before this hall, before this moon, and before any law or lineage that would tell me otherwise."