Dead Luna – Chapter 58
Amelia’s POV
The next morning I was meeting with an omega werewolf named Larry Crumb, who worked on maintenance of the pack buildings and was a janitor of sorts. All he could do was complain about his lack of love life. Naturally, in his eyes the fault was entirely from the local she wolf population, and not the result of his own shortcomings.
“None of the single she wolves around here are interested in me because they all want doctors and lawyers,” he explains. “But none of them has been all that lucky either, even with so many desperate single guys around here. They shouldn’t be so picky!”
couple teeth. Hmm… there was that one she wolf in iron peak… What do you think, Ambrosia?
ya gotta wake up every day to this fine specimen of a wolf!
ll, I can’t promise anything,” I tell Larry as tactfully as I could. “But I might have a few possibi
, including Alpha Garrett and Luna Heather, followed by a couple of wolves I had never met but were obviously high ranking. And last to enter was Prince Alexander! The aura rolling off of him was quite extreme, and everyone around me were bowing and baring their necks.
reverence in his presence.
and broad shouldered, green eyes exactly the same shade of mine, his dark hair shot through with a bit of gray giving him an air of distinction, and wearing a well tailore
e a horse at auction.
u? Nobody warned me you were coming.”
“but you are welcome to call me Alex, or mate, if you choose me.”
been up to since yesterday. They had been constantly whispering together in my presence, and trying to feel me out abo
en lower before the king, feeling his anger directed at me. Even I bare my neck at the onslaught of his magnificent aura.
d either his meaning or what he was offering. “I was told that the moon goddess has not only blessed you with a gift, but given you the ability to choose your
calm, if not bored.
sks me.
od, and Ambrosia comes forward.
k inside my head, leaving me with a bunc
hey can’t just stomp all over our rights and drag us to the capital until they figure out w
o be conversing by mind link.
ers out of the room as quick as he can. Nobody even notices, and I’m rather wishing I could disappear just as quick as Larry did.
er wolf outside in the hall looking inside the room
them thinking that my next request was optional. I begin directing them towards the door. “So I need you all to wait outside in the hall, or some other location of your choice. I’ll be taking a lunch break in 20 minutes, and you can continue to gawk at me all you l
ion, if you please,” King Alexander requested just before I shut the door on him. I look him directly in the eye, and nod. “Who is your mother?”
earst.” I say, and see the glint of recognition in hi
ut I wasn’t stupid. I knew there would be problems in declaring myself as I did. They will try to make me a pawn in their political game.
one, though? I certainly didn’t encourage the Alpha and Luna of this pack to seek out a royal alliance on my behalf, as they apparently did. And I have zero intention of either being mated to
20 minutes. Because it ain’t gonna be good to wait longer.
gree, and then go help the next wolf, Andre Whittaker, a border patrol guard who has
had yet to help in the next couple weeks before I can go back to just being plain old Amy Hearst.
that of a butterfly, changing from one part of my life as I move on the the next, turning into what I was always meant to be, I suppose.