After the rejection ritual, King Alexander fell gravely ill.
The Pack Doctor said it was grief, compounded by the savage backlash of a severed Mate Bond. He nearly didn't survive.
But he did not come back to me again.
He stayed in the border town for one more week. Every day, he sat in the window of his hotel suite and stared, from a distance, at the door of my bar.
In the end, he signed over an absurd inheritance to me,every property, every account that would transfer cleanly,and he left with his men.
Isabella was put to death under Pack Law, ending a life that had been spent entirely on jealousy and scheming.
When King Alexander returned to Moonstone Pack, something inside him hardened into permanence. He became the cold, exacting sovereign the world had always feared. He purged th
