Gier sighed as he wearily sank into a chair. It had been an exhausting day, and he still hadn’t made any headway with his fellow Council members. He had been petitioning the others to force the king to take a chosen mate. Alexander had proven to be far more difficult to control despite his generally amiable nature.
Alexander said he intended to be more diplomatic than his predecessors, but he had taken a hard stance against the Council. He kept a strangle hold of power on the shifter world and stubbornly refused to support the Council’s attempts to bring order to it. There should be a sense of continuity and centralization. They were far past the age where alphas could do anything they pleased. There should be order and, naturally, the Council had the experience and the knowledge to do s
