KAYLA ROCHELLE It had been a whole week since we buried my father-in-law. We had to cut our honeymoon short because his father just fell sick and died a few hours later. Ashford’s mother didn’t think it was a big deal, so she called the doctor a few hours later, but it was too late. He had been poisoned, and the poison had been lingering in his body for weeks without him noticing, and it was too late to save him. That is how my husband, Ashford Cruise, was traditionally made the next Alpha of the Moonstone Pack, even before his father blessed him or handed it over to him. I was crowned the next Luna of the Moonstone pack and immediately took over my queen Luna; she was still mourning the death of her husband, and since I had been a Luna before, I knew my way around, my duties, and what

