Third Person's POV
Madison used the money she'd extorted from Priscilla to further fuel the gossip in bars and coffeehouses, paying bartenders and baristas to sensationalize Adelaide's past mating with Ulrik.
Seeing no response from the Frostfang Pack—and noting they'd sealed their borders and withdrawn from public life—Madison assumed Adelaide was cowering in fear of the public backlash.
The thought filled her with schadenfreude.
Emboldened, she approached Lycan Erasmus at the palace, arguing that Lance's choice of Adelaide as his mate could undermine his judgment and plant seeds of trouble for kingdom management.
For the royal family's stability, she insisted Adelaide must be stopped from becoming Alpha Lance's Luna.
To her surprise, Lycan Erasmus's expression darkened. His musk ph
