Mira
My blood froze seeing Valen standing there, one eyebrow raised at my father and I. The rumors I’d heard passing through the hallways echoed in my memory, and hearing Tyler’s name on his tongue made my hair stand on edge.
“No, Tyler, he’s–” I rambled, words falling out of my mouth before I could think about them, “he’s just a family friend!”
Generally, the marriage of the children of an Alpha was a massive affair. Hundreds of wolves from all the different packs would attend, and the ceremony would include several days of food, dancing, and hunting as a pack.
Tyler and I had always wanted a marriage like that: a celebration under the full moon where we would say our vows, shift, and howl our vows again to the Lunar Goddess. He’d been much too busy for a wedding like that though.
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