3 days after my father's honor was restored, the Council of Elders began debating whether to strip Kyle of his remaining authority. Once I formally dissolved our fated bond at the Full Moon Hearing, he would lose not only his Luna, but the support of Frostblade and the Northern Alliance. Without me defending the northern frontier, his position as Alpha would not survive. He stood to lose far more than a fiancée. He erected a memorial to my father outside the council hall. Then he sent an agreement to Frostblade offering to share his Alpha authority with me. The masons had just finished carving my father's name when I arrived. "Who gave you the go-ahead to build this?" I asked. Kyle stood in front of the monument. "Shadowpine owed it to your father." "Clearing his name was about set

