Betrayed By My Rival Alpha

He promised to tell her first. He meant it every single time.

Lily Hartsbane won her hearing. Now the council wants Logan’s town.

Marry the elder’s granddaughter, and Blackridge keeps its seat, its sanctuary and its road. Refuse, and Stonefang gets an order to bring Lily home.

Logan says no. Twice.

He has also promised Lily he won’t decide one thing about her without telling her first, and he takes it very seriously. He tells her where he’s going at four in the morning. He passes on what Rusk said before she can even ask. Before he fights four direwolves in the road, he warns her first, so she brings a thermos.

Logan keeps rubbing his scent onto her and checking whether it took. He can’t smell himself on her. Everyone else can.

Lily, meanwhile, has rescued a nursery, read a twelve-page dishwasher manual and labeled two hundred cans that lost their labels in a flood. At least one of the beans is peaches.

Then the council sets a deadline: dawn. Sixty-three fires light up at the ford.

Lily does the sum and leaves him a note under the salt shaker.

Logan does the sum and drives to the council seat.

Neither tells the other first.

Book Four of The Rival Alpha’s Luna. Ends on a cliffhanger.