Elise's POV
It had been a week since Lucian's wedding to Morgana. I had kept practicing my new gift, invigorated by what I had accomplished with the champagne glass of our pack's new Luna, when I received an invitation—or more accurately, an order.
I arrived at the council chamber filled with tense expectation. The warm lights, strategically placed, cast soft shadows on the walls, while the tall windows let in the afternoon light, illuminating the faces of those present.
This was a meeting called by the Luna, one in which neither the Alpha nor his Beta would participate, leaving me entirely alone in that place.
Everything in this space was designed to impose: the high-backed chairs, the columns adorned with carvings of wolves mid-hunt, the massive wooden table dominating the center of
