The next day, two units of the Silver Wolf Guard withdrew from the Blackwood northern territory. On the third day, the Silvercrest Joint Fund suspended its investment in the Harborcrest Project. On the fifth day, three northern routes were placed back under permit review. Only then did the Blackwood elders begin to understand how much I had actually been handling over the past 4 years, despite their claim that I had "only become Luna through a marriage alliance". Adrian didn't come to ask me to put the greater good first. He only stood at the border between our two packs and watched as I personally escorted the last returning unit of the Silver Wolf Guard home. Snow lashed his black coat. From the other side of the security cordon, his gaze never left my abdomen, and his black wolf's

