lett

etched for near

exchanged glances, non

n this ballroom were Winter Wolf veterans, those who had f

ides before they'd figur

ter than anyone, which is why

e back alone with nowhere to go. If you make her le

ted him. "Grew up together, and then she decided you weren't g

who stood behind Alexander,

fully maintained innocent exp

I said, my voice not loud but every word crystal clear,

a cold curve forming at

ve, the other betrays his wife. You really are a match made in heaven. Since th

s face tur

his Adam's apple bobbin

couldn't help but d

my spine straight, my expr

held no sen

ll the complex emotions deep within, maintaining

meone in the

ut in such dead silence

. The pack has no heir, and just like

followed, like a spark f

an can't reall

nched his fists, his chest heaving violentl

h

the floor simultaneously and

ollapsed t

ves, her delicate makeup already ruined,

swollen, her voice trembling as if som

she finally forced out tho

need Alexander! I

, all sound van

tching Faye's tear-streaked face gazing up at me, and suddenly felt t

uted to overwork, stress, or inexplicable physical weakness-ever

out, every time that burning pain

l because

heir affair for so long. Because he

at those clutching hands and th

needles and thorns from all directions, as if everything

t had once belonged to me-all crumb

was an iron law, an unspoken e

ree years without conceiving, had become th

then bent down to gently pull Faye up from the floor, his movements

l of guests, his voice steady and carryin

the Crescent Moon Pack. I

upted like a

ty to conceive is a

eds succession, thi

r all, the one the

n heir, the situati

ctions, like mud and sand gradually ris

n angry snarl, but the sound of something much heavier falling-muffl

d not coll

utely

en turned around and walked out of th

t to stop me. No

me-some sympathetic, some gleefully sc

traight spine and composed gait until I