NOR

modest wooden house on the quiet,

steady my breathing. Before I could kn

friends. She saw me and her face twisted f

loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear. "You assau

ed faster than I'd thought. Bree must

ked past her. A silver-haired, stern-fac

e was known for being a stickl

ice was low and commanding. His

slightly in a formal Pack greeting.

rence silenced her with a single, sha

closing on Wendy's indignant face. I h

was simple, smelling of

the one opposite him. "Sit. Tell me what happen

." He didn't know how close

, I dropped to my kne

rrowed. "What is t

nly a firm, calculated desperation. "Eld

o committed the assault, an

h both hands. "This is the Rejection petition, mutually agreed

e words "mutu

eyes widened slightly when

did it come to blows?" he asked, his mind

eed to part peacefully. But when I started packing my things to leave,

the red marks on my wrist where

ng a man's head open?" Lawrence w

demand!" I straightened my back, my

e that I, Elinor Mercado, was unworthy of him, that I was the one abandoning the mate bond, a

bomb. Lawrence's expres

ve insult to the Moon Goddess. It was a Pack scandal of the highest order

ntrol and struck him," I finished, lowering my head, my shoulders

room grew thick and heavy. He stared at me, his ex

what he has to say. In the meantime, you will sta