RAINE
I nodded slowly, just to be polite. No words came out of my mouth, and honestly, I didn’t know what to say.
Some of them whispered to each other, and I knew it wasn’t because they were discussing anything important. I had grown up hearing whispers like that. They had never truly accepted me.
Among the elders sitting around the long table, there were also ten young warriors. They were the core fighters of the Shadowfang Pack. They had been officially appointed the night Alpha Killian was crowned and, at the same time, when he married me and claimed me as his Luna.
The warriors were made up of three women and seven men, all of them children and grandchildren of the Elders seated at this very table.
I recognized their faces. They grew up in this house, in this pack and territory, a
