"What ceremony?" I ask.

"The joining ceremony, of course," Darius states.

Terry chuckles. "Don't tell me you don't know guys from the high ranks host them once they find mates."

I shake my head. Am I really that uneducated about wolf stuff or was I simply desperately disinterested in those customs?

"It's like a wedding in your human world," Debra clarifies, amused, having noticed my distress.

"Right," my food suddenly climbs back up my throat. I was supposed to marry Ian this year. And now...it turns out I'll be marrying someone else. I can't help feeling the Moon Goddess' blessing is more a curse.

Why is she doing this to...