Chapter 81

The meeting area was different from the kind of place I thought in my head.

The council meeting room had enough space for thirty people. The walls of the room were painted with gray and the ceiling was black. Dim lights illuminated the place, bright enough for us to see each other. Gloomy and dark. A perfect atmosphere to talk about peace and war.

There was one long old wooden table in the middle of the room and the elders were already settled on their seats, patiently waiting for their newlywed Alpha.

Every face I saw among the council members was unfriendly. Unhappy. And whatever it was that made them look unsatisfied with my husband’s ruling in the Blackwood Pack, I knew that it was not because my mate was not good at his job. But because he didn’t listen to their advice not to choose me as the Luna of their pack.

The distaste was clear to some of them. Some scanned me from head to foot with their mouths curved downward and with judging eyes, still not knowing that the woman who