her

violently over the frozen

r face buried in a lace handkerchief. Every soft, hitching sob sh

her for your betro

echoed in my skull, re

id sh

pavilions, our letters burned to gray ash. Yet the way she had looked at me-her green eyes so cold, so entirel

ouch my knee. "What if she tells her father? W

y, pressing the heels of my p

. Enola was guessing. She was throwing

te sobbed, shrinking into the corner of the carri

ut of control. "You were supposed to be her gentle, indispensable companion! Ins

rough the courtyard, barely waiting for the footman to

he royal chambers, a shadow stepp

mother's chief

r Highness," Rose said, curtsying with

ged direction, marching into Quee

ing spiced wine. She was an Alpha female of the formidable Montgomery

ack with you," Eleanor said, n

d, trying to steady my voice. "The Han

anded, setting her goblet down wi

upon me, her gaze piercin

w why you run to defend a destitute minor noble's daughter? A girl from the

the

"You will marry Enola Hanson if I have to drag you to the altar in chains. As for that little blonde leech, I have already sent word t

mother's Alpha aura slammed ag

ont

d council chamber, my chin resting on one closed fist. Warren Vance, my wolfless

arpened the severe lines of my face-the high cheekbones, straight nose, and hard-cut jaw that had appeared on Eldorian coins for more than

decades of war and rule, my body remained hard with pureblood Lycan strength. The throne had been ca

Lady Enola Hanson defied him openly. Word from our scouts in the north says she has ordered t

her name, something

d naked invitations. Now he stirred for a woman who stood hundreds of miles away-not full

a Ha

hard, unmistakable pressure formed between my thighs. The heavy fall of my coa

son's betrothed. Her name alone should not h

asked, keeping

and guards," Warren replied. "She intends t

," I r

beneath my coat hardened further, pulsing once at the thought of Enola

diate, and unlike anything I

e cast an immense shadow across the dais

allions," I commanded. "I will in

owed and

n. My son's

m, my Lycan pressed one dark,

i