Chapter 32
RUTH FELL BACK ASLEEP before we could do what we’d come for—invite the neighboring alphas to tomorrow’s Naming Ceremony. But her chosen lieutenant had everything under control.
“Arrange the girl in her mother’s arms,” he told his brother. “Be sure her genitals are covered. Then take the heir outside.”
“Too busy giving orders to do it yourself?” Sean muttered under his breath. But he obeyed, tweaking the scene so the woelfin baby could stand in for her brother. This way, the neighbors wouldn’t realize our pack had a bloodling heir until the Naming Ceremony itself.
“Now, you”—Xavier gestured to me—“sit beside her.”
Xavier had been clever with the baby switch, but Luke glowered behind me. The mood here needed lightening. “Did you forget the magic word?” I teased.
“Magic?” Xav
