HAYES
The noise inside the Great Hall was loud enough to shake the dust e tire building.
Every single member of the Riverstone pack was inside. Scouts, elders, warriors, and delta farm families squeezed together along the walls. People were standing on the wooden benches just to get a view of the raised platform at the front. Word had spread down the entire mountain before noon. The rival Alpha had fled, his general was dead in the courtyard snow, and the double-Alpha twins were alive and healthy.
I stood in the side room behind the heavy red curtain, watching Ciara through the small gap.
She sat on the big oak throne at the center of the raised stone platform. She was still pale, and her eyes showed how tired her body was after the birth, but she held her head high. She wore a dark gr
