MAYA’S POV
The air in the room vanished. Even Jalen’s smile faltered, his glass trembling slightly in his hand.
I stood there, frozen, the word fiancée echoing in my brain. It was official. The line had been drawn, and Rafe had just declared war on the entire pack for me. The silence that followed was suffocating, as if the room had been plunged underwater. Jalen was the first to move.
"Is that so?" Jalen asked, his voice deceptively quiet.
But the crowd wasn't as composed. The vacuum of silence was instantly filled by a roar of outrage.
"Fiancée? This is madness!" a high-ranking elder shouted from the front.
"It’s illegal!" another voice joined in, followed by a chorus of agreement. "An Alpha Prince cannot marry his brother's discarded wife! It is abominable—an insult to our traditi
