“True, however, with a male Heir, the Shadowmoon Pack, not Blackthorne, should have been taken over by you, Lucious, when you come of age, it's…it's in our pack's law or at least was. I’m not sure how it works now since the fall, who becomes Alpha when two heirs have been separated from basically birth?”
The Priestess looked thoughtful, her ancient eyes studying both of us. "The goddess's bloodline follows different rules than ordinary packs. When the original Shadowmoon Pack was established, leadership passed to the most worthy heir, regardless of gender or birth order."
"So either of us could lead," I said, trying to process this information.
"Or both," the Priestess suggested. "There is precedent in your family's earliest history for dual leadership—siblings ruling as equals, each br
