#Chapter 17: Former Tribute

Nina – the woman my pack previously sacrificed to the Lycan King? “You’re alive…” I am seeing her with my own two eyes and still can’t believe it. No one was ever truly sure what happens the tributes once they were sent off as devotion to the King. Some women, we knew, were selected to be members of the harem. But what of the rest? None ever returned from their trek to the Capital. While a great honor to be chose as tribute for the Lycan King, we all reasoned it was a potential death sentence. The King is known to be ruthless, and as we never heard word back, we could only assume… For the sake of the families, members of my pack treated those sent away as if they had died. Funerals were held. Memorials were built. To see Nina here in the flesh, when only last year, I had attended her funeral is shocking to say the least. “I’m not dead,” Nina says, scoffing. “You think I wouldn’t be chosen? I’m in the harem.” Glancing at her state of dress, a fine silk gown wraps around