(Lycans POV)
Axel had called an emergency meeting with the high council as soon as we had returned.
He didn’t need to tell me, but I already knew this was hard for him to do. It’s not exactly easy to get a viewing with the Elders on demand like this, and he probably won’t get another shot for a good few months or more.
He had planned to go to them and request Chelseas false mark be removed from him, but instead he was doing this for me and Ilyda.
I’d always wished that one day when he steps down, if he has no heir that I, being his Beta, would become Alpha . Yet watching the decisions he’s had to make tonight let me know I could never amount to what it takes. I’m too selfish.
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Five hours had passed since he went in for his viewing, and I paced frantically outside the great
