Luscious, having conceded defeat, went to the Council's secretariat and agreed to do whatever they wanted in exchange for allowing Ema to leave.
Jaime quickly announced that Luscious' marriage to Celestine would take place the next weekend in the Council's conference hall.
Luscious was astonished by the level of urgency. He was aware that his father had previously made plans with Afonsos to announce Celestine as the future Luna queen of Attah.
"The needs of the people will always rank above the personal needs of a leader," Alpha Skyler told Luscious. "Ema has been rejected by the Alphas of Attah; you must listen to the voice of the nation," he said before leaving. "She has done nothing wrong; it wasn't her fault that she was born a Walter," Luscious told Alpha Skyler, who was already fa
