Irina’s POV
The days following the council meeting passed in a tense, brittle blur. The Alpha's Gathering was winding down, the air thick with the unspoken tension of Aiden's very public and brutal rejection of Julie and, by extension, Blue Moon's political standing.
The next meeting in three months would be held back in our pack, and there, all the Alphas would decide whether to remain neutral friends or become enemies.
I hope what I did by saving the pups will be considered. I don’t want Blue Moon to get annihilated just because Julie was seen as weak.
I kept my head down, my movements automatic as I performed my duties. The bruises from my "lesson" in the kennels had faded to a sickly yellow-green, hidden beneath my long sleeves and high collar. Julie's cold silence had returned,
