Mariam’s POV
The lycan king had launched his first attack, confident that he would achieve a quick and decisive victory over us by resorting to Melany’s kidnapping. But what he got was something very different from what he had planned: we now had a new ally, Leander from House Drachenfell, who used our arrival at Gold Lake’s pack house to free himself from the yoke he had been under practically since birth, twenty-one years ago.
“So, you killed Alpha McCarthy?” asked Luna Emma when we met with my parents the afternoon after the ‘after-party’ events.
“I had to,” Leander replied. “I offered him surrender, but he chose to trust that Prince Ulfric would protect him, as if the royal family ever cared about anyone other than themselves.”
“I understand, boy,” Alpha Damian interjected. “But yo
