LIVIA (LYRA)’S POV. Drawing in deep breaths, I step back, wanting to be held even if it is for comfort but I find no one, not even Mateo. He is now at the side of his father amongst his brothers the way they were on the night the moon goddess designated me a mate to the first and second princes. The wind is up again stronger than it was and it is not even night yet, but the moon is up and the sun is beginning to look like it is not up but it is. After the Alpha King declared the beginning, there was silence, intense silence, worse than being deaf because at least one is conscious of being deaf. No one has made a move. No one is saying a word. It is as if they are trying to understand how the moon and the sun can be up at the same. I sense their fears and somehow I think the Luna, the r

