RONAN
I did not want to attend the ball that night. For months, I felt like I was just existing. I still attended to my duties as pack Alpha but the rest of my time when I was not with Lily, was spent in my wolf form. It was simpler that way. I didn’t have to think about the bond or Iris or anything.
Virginia, Kael and Darius had surprisingly become a trio in my absence. They managed the pack when I could not and made decisions I should have been making. Three days before the Crescent Pack's mating ball, they had arm wrestled me into attending.
"It will be good for you," Virginia said. It was surprising she was still around. "You need to be seen so that the other packs know Nelion is still strong."
"I don't care what the other packs think," I replied.
"You used to care and that Alph
