Third Person's POV
Adelaide fingered her Moon Goddess necklace, its moonstone in the wolf-head emblem suddenly warm.
Her cedar pheromones, laced with silver fern, rippled through the Thunder Wolf Pack's conference room. "Alpha ance and I have decided that after our mating ceremony, Cedric will live with us in the Blackthorn Pack," she announced.
She glanced at Cedric and noticed him instinctively shrinking his neck. A fresh, pale-pink scar from a past rogue attack marred his nape.
Softening her tone, she continued, "Cedric trusts Alpha Lance implicitly. It was Alpha Lance who rescued him from that nightmare. Once he recovers, Alpha Lance will hire the finest tutors for him."
"A decent person with some education, passing the Frostfang Pack's test and bearing its Alpha status ensures a
