Seraphina The first time I gave Lucian information, I didn't think of it as betrayal. That was the truth. Maybe not a flattering truth. Maybe not a smart truth. But a truth nonetheless. Because if someone had asked me that morning whether I would ever help a rival Alpha threaten Blackridge, I would have laughed in their face. I loved my pack. Whatever else had happened, whatever mistakes I had made, whatever doubts haunted me late at night, that much remained true. Blackridge was my home. Its people were my people. Its children were my responsibility. I was still Rowan’s Luna. I would never knowingly put them in danger. The problem was that betrayal rarely announced itself that clearly. Sometimes it arrived disguised as conversation. As sympathy. As understanding. As comfort. And by

