ALPHA XAVIER POV

The weight of the world pressed down on my shoulders, a heavy cloak woven from suspicion and uncertainty. The recent events, like a storm gathering force, had cast a dark shadow over Lunaria. Alpha Emrys, the revered leader who had held the peace of in the universe together, was gone, a victim of a conspiracy that twisted in the shadows.

Isabel, my beloved mate, had confirmed my worst fears. The whispers that had haunted me for weeks were true. Aria, the Queen of the Lunaria and mated to All Emrys, had orchestrated Emrys’s demise. Her motive? Power. And Dario, her father, the Alpha of the Thornridge, was...