"Human-born really are pathetic. She thinks that just because she bears a passing resemblance to our Lady Seraphina, she can hide here and seduce the Supreme Alpha?"
It wasn't until I heard their venom that I realized who had barged in and struck me. The woman standing before me was none other than Seraphina Crystalis, the one the Silvercrest Alpha had offered to end the war between the packs all those years ago.
For hundreds of thousands of years, the Supreme Alpha could have had his pick of countless beauties. Instead, he spent every day at my side.
He had never spared a second glance at any woman other than me.
That was why, when he agreed to halt the great war on account of Seraphina, a thread of doubt had wound through my heart.
Now, seeing her in person for the first time, I understood. She bore a resemblance to me.
That was what had stirred his mercy.
At this moment, Seraphina's face was twisted with fury, her blazing gaze threatening to consume me whole. The scent of white jasmine and fresh snow rolled off her in waves, but beneath it was something sharp and chemical, something that made the small wolf inside me flatten itself low and still.