That meant convincing my brother of the wrongness of the situation before Damien had time to talk to him, to counter whatever I might try to say. In my house, I paced back and forth in the living room, feeling unbelievably restless, maybe more so than I ever had in my life before this moment. How could everything fall apart so spectacularly? I had so many plans, so carefully crafted. I just wanted that human and her whelp out of our lives for good so that I could make Damien my husband and be the Luna of this pack. Per my lineage, it was my right. It should have always been me from the start, and it would have been if Damien hadn’t made that impulsive trip to the human realm and found that b***h. Yet, somehow, it all came crashing down. Now, not only was I sidelined in favor of a human

