Echo This is it. It’s my turn to complete the rituals before I meet my mate at the altar where we’ll officially become King and Queen. It saddened me a little that I wasn’t with Sebastian when he completed his rituals. I would have liked to have seen it. But this is the way of things, and we’ll be together soon enough. Together, we’ll be crowned. I won’t have to do that part alone. When Sebastian’s howls rented the air, I knew the ancestors had accepted him as King. I couldn’t keep the smile off my face. I had no doubt Sebastian would be accepted, but it made it all so real. “Mom?” I look at my son. “Jensen, what are you doing here? You should be with your father.” Jensen couldn’t follow his father into Moonroot Hollow. My son is not permitted to see the ancestors until it’s his tu

