I didn’t dare say another word. I laid there, still, waiting to hear Gideon speak to me through the bond.
“In the beginning, I never planned to have a Luna.” He started, I could feel him hesitate before he continued anyway. I knew it right then. This was the conversation we’d been putting off. “But then we found out, my father and the previous Moonfall Alpha had made this unbreakable promise to marry their children off to each other. I didn’t want to. I’ve never thought of it. But Soren and the other elders… they convinced me it’d benefit the pack. Marrying the heir to the Moonfall pack meant I could acquire it in the future. I also thought having a Luna for the pack would be nice. The people would love that. So I agreed to keep the promise. I knew the moment I saw you, that they’d swappe
