Her scorching hot blood soaked

collar in a death grip. "Ma'am... your wolf hasn't

e comp

tained fingers, she slowly pointed at the wolf fang.

r sentence, her hand dropp

r chest with all my strength, but the blood kep

ed from outsid

thought, I shoved the wolf fang into my

open the cell door and walke

er. I just he

ping low. "Lillian, I'm asking you on

up at him. "She ju

y grabbed my chin. "Lillian, you know

and interrogated me about what

said a

body, I clenched my teeth and

othes quickly, dripping fr

" Erick crouched down in front of

hed me and saw how I reacted to his words,

s and refused t

he asked, I d

ing, Erick also tortured me t

rly breaking that Erick fina

ow. Before then, I'll m

loor, coughing violently, and f

ood, and a silver crescent mark

s its master. When the Blood Moon rises, enter the Silver Moon Altar and use the leader's blood to forge t

t the wolf fang in my hand and finally under

ell exactly on the ni

ant to usurp my po

o enter the altar and take fu

opened again, I qui

walk

ondescendingly. "Have

I didn't

e weak. "I'm willing to s

y caught off guard.

e wall and lowered my eyes. "I admit I have no wolf and no right to

ong time, and the suspicio

ad finally acc

n on one of my wrists. "If you'd listened to me

ngeon. By then, the altar wa

re, and the blood moon loomed high in the sky,

llowed stele and raised hi

become leader. But before the ceremony began, we discovered somethin

full of carefully pretended anguish. "

uproar in an instant, eve

that pos

on the child she gav

with red-rimmed eyes and took a Kins

ssed a drop of his blood onto the stone

after the other, but the Kinst

her cheeks. "The Kinstone has proven that Noah

uptly dropped to her knees before ever

rupted in u

pull himself free of

hissed threateningly thr

id my child would threaten her as the leader, so she took him from me by force right after I gave birth. She used her status as the former leader's daughter to

overed that Lillian had been poisoning Noah for years t

rom the crowd grew

all along that

nd even poisoning him-she doesn'

of her own. What right does sh

give up th

the council of eld

came flying at the al

gash from the whips split open again. War

ied to say something, but Misha

could not shift into the wolf form, and could no longer bear children, I was still willing to stand by her side and should

dened. "I can forgive her weakness

of poisoning Noah. She has forfeited her right to succeed to the position of the p

and whispered in a voice only the two of us could hear

ression on it and curled my lips. "Erick,