River
I had dreamed of finding my Luna since I was a teenager. Back then I was certain I would find my fated mate, and that we would come together as a passionate, powerful, devoted partnership to lead and to guide the Blackstone pack. She would be my queen, and the entire pack would be awed by her beauty and her presence. They would treat her with awe and respect, just as they did their Alpha.
I never pictured it coming about in such a convoluted, backward manner. Lenora wasn’t my fated, and although she possessed a unique, earthy kind of beauty, she was not the strong, elegant woman I had once envisioned standing at my side. My people regarded her with a certain amount of disdain and suspicion. Rumors had already spread like wildfire that Lenora was nothing more than the weak dau
