SELENE’S POV
Things were changing and they were changing really fast, the courtyard did not feel like ours anymore, It felt like a courtroom.
Alphas stood in clusters beneath the banners that once symbolized unity. Their wolves were close to the surface, I could see it in the way their shoulders tensed, in the way their eyes flashed gold too easily. The chaos in the territories had followed them here, clinging to their scents like smoke.
No one bowed when Dante and I stepped forward. That was the first sign, even with all the changes he had undergone, it seemed that now they chose to ignore his presence and authority all together. The second was the silence, it wasn't respectful. Expectant. Alpha Marius of the Western Ridge stepped forward first. He had always been blunt, but never reck
