A wolf pack cannot become a clawhold without an alpha.
The alpha was the strongest of the pack: their leader, their ruler and their king.
Also, Aria hated alphas.
The last time she had met one was also the last day she met her father.
It was on the celebration of her fifteenth solar cycle, her birthday, a day that she had planned to celebrate with her entire family.
It was the day her life changed.
The day that the pack elders proclaimed her a Stillblood.
Her father, the man she had always loved, adored and respected all her life, had immediately shunned and rejected her.
She still remembered the shocked look on his face when she was proclaimed a Stillblood.
That was the last day she saw her father. Even though they lived in the same castle, her stepmother made sure that
