Elena’s POV

The hall thundered with cheers, voices rising in unison, wolves howling like the night sky itself had opened for them. They cheered for him. For her. For them.

I stood among the crowd, a smile plastered across my lips, my hands clapping with the same rhythm as everyone else’s. But inside? Inside I was burning.

Twins.

The word clawed at me, over and over. Two heirs. A boy and a girl. The pack couldn’t stop howling about it, couldn’t stop fawning over Aria like she was some goddess sent from the heavens. They didn’t see the truth. They didn’t see the cracks in her smile, the lies dripping...