DAMONS POV “Can I have all of your attention, please?” I said, clinking the champagne glass that I had grabbed on my way up the stage. It wAs time for the announcement ad I was trying hard to be excited for this despite the fact that I had just met my mate. Whom I didng even have the intention of keeping around. The room went quiet, and the wolves that were scattered all over the ballroom came closer to the stage to hear what I had to say. Now was the perfect time for me to make my announcement because I had noticed that the elders had just gotten here. The announcement thag I wS About to Mae was more for them than for anyone else. It was for them to nnow that I finally had a partner and that it was now tome for them to crown me. I wasn’t goin5 ro take any more excuses from them and I wa

