“What do we do, Alpha?” A deep voice rumbled once the Noble Alpha and his personal guard left the hall. “You mean…,” the Alpha King replied coolly. “If the Luna spends enough time with him, she will learn the truth,” the voice continued in the King’s mind. The Alpha King was silent. “Mason,” the voice rumbled patiently. “She is my daughter. Any lies he tells her, I will dissuade her of,” Alpha King Mason replied coldly. “She IS your daughter. She will NOT be dissuaded –” the voice retorted firmly, but the Alpha King was not about to be contradicted. “Enough of this!” Alpha King Mason cut in, a sharp edge to his usually calm voice. “Mason, Castian Rhodes was banished. He was a mere child then. He was supposed to have died in exile. If he has survived, for eighteen years, and become

