Chapter 54: I Owe ou everything
(Aria's POV)
The hall swirled with light and murmurs, but I lingered in a shadowed corner near one of the towering silver columns, the mate bond suppression potion keeping my emotions dull and my wolf unnaturally quiet.
I focused on the cool surface of the pillar against my back. It was my anchor in an evening I’d rather forget, as wolves spun webs of gossip around Diana’s dominance and Sarah’s increasingly bold ambitions.
And then, a voice brushed against my mind, soft and hesitant.
"Aria."
The connection felt thin, like a fragile thread about to snap. It was Luna Catherine, using the remnants of our old pack bond. For a fleeting moment, guilt radiated through the link so strongly that I straightened instinctively.
"I know tonight has been… ov
