*Kiona*

A little over two weeks later, the night of the most important ball of the mating Season, the one destined to change lives, arrives. Excitement thrums through me as I stand with Isadora and Jade in the grand salon of the Alpha of Brinsley’s City mansion. Oddly, my anticipation has nothing at all to do with the announcement the Alpha will be making at the stroke of ten or the fact that anyone of any renown is presently taking flutes of champagne from the elegant footmen or that the largest orchestra I have ever seen sits in one corner of the balcony that encompassed three sides of the room...