Chapter 36: Building Walls
(Olivia's POV)
I couldn't sleep that night. My thoughts kept circling back to the Shadowcrests and their sudden interest in me.
Why would Cassius Shadowcrest, Alpha of one of the most powerful packs in the Northern Territory, go out of his way to attend my failed mating ceremony? Why would his mother invite me to their heavily guarded estate? Why would he spend three hundred million on my mother's moonstone bracelet?
None of it made sense unless they wanted something from me.
My wolf paced restlessly beneath my skin, agitated by my growing paranoia. I tried to calm her, but memories of past betrayals kept surfacing.
I remembered how my father had used me as a pawn in his political games. How Graham had courted me for years only to abandon me for my ha
