A meeting was held and different council members were allowed to speak
The moon may not decide on your schedule Alpha,
The eldest council member had said at the last meeting, with the particular tone of an old wolf who had run out of patience. *You are twenty six years old. There are packs that will interpret your unmated status as an invitation to challenge
*Let them,* I had said.
And that had been the end of that meeting.
Storm had approved.
Storm always approved of directness.
But there had been nights quiet ones, when the pack was settled and the work was done and I was alone in my office with nothing to occupy my mind when I had wondered if I was being stubborn about something that simply wasn't coming. If the patient waiting thing inside me was hope or just pride refusing t
