The silence after Alpha John finished speaking did not last long. At first no one moved, and the entire clearing seemed frozen in that awful moment after Ezra accepted the challenge. Three days. Three f*****g days before father and son would stand in front of the entire pack and fight for control of everything.
Then the murmuring started. It spread slowly at first, like wind moving through dry grass, but within seconds the clearing filled with low voices and tense conversations. Wolves shifted into small groups while they whispered and argued and stared toward the platform where Alpha John still stood like he had already won.
I stayed where I was for a moment because my feet did not seem to know where they were supposed to go.
The matebond pulsed tight and restless beneath my skin, and
