River POV
Good to be back!
It was better to be in the academy than to be back home. Weird but that was the truth. Not because I didn’t miss my family, but the work to be done at the pack was tedious and overwhelming. It was as if we were not on a holiday. It was all about training. Physical training in the morning and in the afternoon, while we handle the business affairs of the pack in between.
Dad was all set in passing the crown to us soon but not that soon. He was wishing for us to meet our mate or mates on our eighteenth birthday in June despite the prophecy. We would be having our mating ceremony, but he wanted us to train with our wolves first. It will be anyway on our eighteenth birthday when we will first get to shift to our wolves. When we have satisfied him, Ryder and I can
