ALICIA
Eric cleared his throat, breaking the taut silence, and voiced the truth none of them wanted to admit, but all of them felt.
“Even though every instinct in me rebels against sharing my mate,” he said calmly, barely masking the tension beneath, “The thought of being separated from the Luna Prime is worse. My wolf would not survive that kind of distance.”
He paused, allowing the weight of the admission to settle over the courtyard.
“Now that we’ve already addressed how to keep our packs from collapsing,” he continued, voice steady, deliberate. “We must face the harder issue, how we each spend time with her. We all know, if we leave that to instinct, it will end in bloodshed.”
His gaze lifted to me then. Not possessive, not demanding, just resolute.
“We need to settle this clean
