#CHAPTER 224: Seating

Sarah POV “You know she kidnapped his daughter.” I kept my eyes front and center, not betraying with a single sign how that comment, which seemed to float across the room, like a gently thrown, sharply pointed paper airplane, right to my ears. I was thrown back in time to the days I stood outside Chloe’s school, waiting with the other parents, rejected and suspected of some of the worst crimes a parent could imagine. Breathing deeply, calmly, I reminded myself I wasn’t standing apart from the others as I waited for Chloe to emerge from her school. No, you’re sitting apart from the others. In the impressively vast debate hall of Pack Alpha Colette’s palace, the forty-eight Pack Alphas of this inter-territorial meeting about the revelations of the Luna Temple were seated at tables in the middle of the chamber. Against the high, windowless walls sat their mates and some of their adult children, as well as a few VIPs. These alphas, betas, and even gammas, male and female, watch