“Ava Maynard, my dear mate, will you please rise and come forward?”

Ava was surprised as she heard her name. No one told her that she would have anything to do with whatever that was happening tonight, but seeing as she’d already been called, she had no choice but to answer. She stood up, walking slowly towards the stage, and putting her hand into Lucas’s hand that was waiting to receive her.

“Three months ago, I was living the life that the one who cursed me intended for me; the life of a lonely wolf, a painful existence that I was meant to die in, but all that changed when...