BEAUM

ight weeping. The guest rooms in the west wing were apparently

lver hair. A cold smile touched my

ure color of the Beaumont Pack, and pinned my L

ick with tension. Bennett and Lady Betse

, the seat of the Luna. Servants immedia

yatt is my son. It's a disgrace to ha

cing a piece of melon. "Move him into the main house

ap in the face in noble soc

lutching her baby. Her eyes were red and swo

leading eyes. "Alpha Bennett, it's my fault. I shouldn't have asked for

nett's resolve crumbled. He started

t my plate. The sharp cl

pped h

my voice low but laced with c

Luna's command in a formal setting. He sat, b

il, Daisey burst int

napkin onto the table. "Celina Beaumont! Wha

ncy and the rules of the Car

Lana, through her network of servan

the Elders to allow the Carli

e Moon Goddess were absolute: one Alpha, one Luna. It was the sacred foundation of o

father is Commander Stone. He has influence in the army. And she keep

cutting to the heart of the matter. "As long as I am alive and I am the Luna of

such a fantasy. But Daisey, as I learned later, had threaten

, he came to

tone meant to be conciliatory. "Daisey... she just wants a title, for the boy's sake. If you

tranger. For his mistress, he was asking me to

the man I had married went out. It was a re

desk, took out a clean sheet of pa

doing?" he a

oke each word with chilling precision.

drained fr

stard a proper title," I continued, a smile playing on my li

make her your one and only

ared at me, searching my face f

old him I had never been