On the first full moon after the blood moon, Blackpine held a grand bonding ceremony.
The entire pack was lit with firelight.
The people who had once questioned why his mate was an Omega now stood willingly on both sides of the path and bowed to me.
This time, not because the Moon Goddess had named me.
But because they had seen with their own eyes that my hands had pulled their Alpha back from the poison of wolfsbane.
I wore a moon-white gown and stood before the altar beneath the silver light.
Alpha Aric turned to face me.
His amber eyes held the moonlight.
And me.
"Are you ready?" he asked softly.
I did not close my eyes immediately.
I looked at him and spoke the words I had kept in my heart for a long time.
"Aric, I’m saying yes to you not because the Moon Goddess arranged t
