MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Fifty three — The Ranked Wolves
The Gathering Hall was full.
Not the way it had been full for the trial.
Not the mixed gathering of ranked and unranked wolves sitting together making something new.
Just ranked wolves.
Every single one.
Sitting in the front sections the way they had always sat. The sections that had always been theirs. The sections that the reformation framework had specifically redesigned to be shared.
They had taken them back.
Mara stood at the entrance and looked at the hall.
At the faces.
At the specific expression on every single one of them.
Not anger.
Not aggression.
Something more complicated.
Fear wearing the clothing of defiance.
She understood that immediately.
She had worn that clothing herself.
For twenty two yea
