(Aria) At seven in the morning, I was sitting in Kael's office with a stack of papers that made my head hurt just looking at them. Supply lists, patrol schedules, territory maps, pack member files. Everything a Luna was supposed to know about running a pack. "This is impossible," I said, dropping the latest report about grain shipments. "How does anyone remember all this?" Kael looked up from his own paperwork. "Practice. And lots of coffee." I rubbed my temples. I had been reading for two hours and felt like I knew less than when I started. "Why didn't Daniel ever mention any of this? We were together for eight years. You would think he would have prepared me." "Daniel assumed he would handle the Alpha duties while his mate looked pretty and had his children." The bitter truth of th

