LYRA’S POV
Long after I left the hallroom, I still couldn’t get the thought out of my head. Lupin’s clan had never gone to the King’s ball before, at least not after I became their Luna. We didn’t receive any invites to the Emperor’s ball, I would remember if we did, but that wasn’t what bothered me. It was the events that happened around that time that did.
Darius always took a yearly vacation around that time of the month, he never missed it and he was always gone for days, leaving me to run the pack all on my own. I never complained because according to what I heard it was a vacation he always took even before I came into his life. He never offered to take me with him, and I never suggested it. When I found out about Selene, I initially thought he took that vacation to spend more qual
