#Chapter 217: The Replacement

Ella’s POV Brian’s birthday was in a week. It would finally be his coming of age, which meant that he would take Stormhollow over in my father’s place. He would become the Alpha of Stormhollow. Brian, the son of a woman who sacrificed lambs in dark forests and had nefarious plans for the only artifacts that could break my curse, the son of a man who remarried hardly a month after his first wife died, was going to take over the pack that never should have been his to begin with. Stormhollow was my mother’s pack. She had been the true heir to Stormhollow before she married, but in our world, she had no choice but to rescind control to my father—her fated mate—once they were wed. Then, the pack would have been mine. I was the female heir, the future Alpha of Stormhollow by ancestral rights. And then my mother had died. And it didn’t matter that she had actually been reborn, because there was no way anyone could know who she truly was. So my father took