Leah
The quiet held for three heartbeats. Four. Five.
Then Turk stood up.
The delta officer rose from his seat at the officers' table with the abrupt energy of someone who had been waiting for permission and had run out of patience for waiting. His eyes blazed with a conviction that made the wolves on either side of him lean back slightly.
“Our Queen is a badass!” His voice hit the rafters and bounced back. “Together with our King, North Star will be unstoppable!”
The silence shattered.
The roar that erupted from the hall was physical, a wall of sound that vibrated in my sternum and pushed tears into my eyes before I could stop them. Wolves surged to their feet, chairs scraping against stone, fists pounding tables, voices rising in a flood of approval that drowned out everything else
