For several seconds, I couldn’t move.
The true Alpha Queen.
The words echoed through the temple.
I looked at Kael.
The man who had rejected me.
The man who had humiliated me in front of his entire pack.
The man who had ordered warriors to find me.
And now he was standing before me, telling me I was the rightful queen.
I laughed bitterly.
“You expect me to believe you?”
Kael’s expression didn’t change.
“I know you have no reason to trust me.”
“No,” I snapped. “I don’t.”
He lowered his eyes.
For the first time since I’d met him, Alpha Kael Blackwood looked like a broken man.
“I deserved your hatred.”
I stared at him.
“Then why did you reject me?”
His jaw tightened.
“Because my father ordered me to.”
My heart twisted.
“But you were the Alpha King.”
“I became Alpha after
