Killian’s POV

"Worry not elders, the Alpha has chosen me as his mate."

Lovena’s voice rang through the council room like a cracked bell, loud, shameless, and utterly delusional.

The Elders glanced at one another, expressions shifting between surprise and satisfaction, as though she had just spoken the prophecy they'd been waiting for.

I turned to her slowly, the urge to laugh replaced by a dangerous silence. Was she insane?

She took my silence as permission to continue.

“We all know,” she began confidently, “that my father was Lord Wolfe's father's Beta. Both our parents wanted us to get married. They wanted me to be Luna. My father taught me...