Third Person’s POV


    45 Free Coins


    Praise and amazement flooded in like waves, mingled with women’s uncontroble gasps at their stunning


    appearances.


    Adide disyed a keener instinct for managing the scene than Lance.


    With a smile, a slight lean forward, and a concise, forceful gesture of eptance, she dered, “Thank you for your blessings! Your voices have caught the Moon Goddess’s attention! Today’s bonfire will never die!”


    Ivy approached with a massive bag crafted from a whole animal hide.


    Inside were polished crescent–shaped bone chips, imbued with faint energy and symbolizing the Moon Goddess’s blessings, or small pieces of rare minerals blessed for strength andnd fertility.


    This was no mere luxury but a mark of honor at a royal–level mating ceremony.


    They’d already seen Adide’s “luggage“-the wealth stacked in a private warehouse.


    Even the worldly Prisci had widened her eyes in shock and gasped.


    Lance couldn’t stay in the room long. He had to greet the guests.


    He left the room with great reluctance, looking back again and again.


    After Lance left the room, Ivy sat down, massaging her aching legs. The day had been joyful but exhausting


    Avery and the others also went out, leaving only she–wolves in the room.


    Paisley and Ang stayed to apany Adjde.


    Seeing the way Irene and Klein had acted today, it seemed they were trying to take over Lance’s ckthorn Pack.


    “Adide, you look stunning today,” Paisley said, cupping Adide’s face in her hands.


    Her eyes sparkled with admiration. “How could you be <i>so </i>beautiful? If someone else had a face like yours, I’d scratch it for sure.”


    Ang teased from the side, “There are plenty of people more beautiful than you. Why haven’t you scratched them?”


    “You just be quiet,” Paisley retorted. “Your pack’s disy today wasn’t as grand as ours. I’m talking to Adide first.”


    Ang wouldn’t back down.


    She sat on Adide’s right, turned Adide’s face toward her, and whined, “When I attend my mating ceremony one day, I want to look just as beautiful as this.”


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    5 Free Coins


    Paisley turned Adide’s face back and huffed, “No matter how you dress up, you’ll never look as beautiful <b>as </b>Adide.”


    “Who said that?” Ang turned Adide’s face back again.


    Adide ced her hands on both their shoulders. “Stop it. Tell me, did Irene order you not to appear until my mating ceremony?”


    Adide had no qualms speaking ill of Irene.


    She waved her hand, signaling for the omegas to guard the door.


    Paisley, never one to hold back, exined, “We’ve been here for two days, but Irene ordered us not to enter the capital. We had to stay at a hotel outside the city. It was crowded, but we arranged enough people to ensure the gifts were safe.”


    So they’d arrived two days prior–around when Craig left. Likely to meet with Irene.


    “Irene took Prune into the city daily from morning till evening. We don’t know what she was investigating. Today, we waited at the hotel, and as soon as we thought it was time for you to leave the pack, we rushed over.”


    Paisleyined, “I’ve never been <i>so </i>embarrassed, but it’s such an honor. The whole city must be watching us.”


    Ang was equally excited. “I’ve never seen such a scene before. Wow, it’s so lively. I bet the entire city is here.”


    Adide smiled warmly. “That’s for sure.”


    The capital was vast, so the im was exaggerated.


    “The hotel was small and cold,” Paisley grumbled.


    “I’m such a delicate person, enduring this hardship–only you, Adide, deserve such treatment.” Paisley often imed to be delicate andined of hardship, yet on the battlefield, she never flinched. Ang added, “It wasn’t too bad, except the food was terrible. The cook must have been ipetent.” Adide felt a lump in her throat. “I owe you all a debt of gratitude for putting up with that small hotel for <i>so </i>many days.”


    Paisley said, “You don’t need <i>to </i>repay us. Irene does. She said if invited packs don’t attend, they’ll sever ties with the Warscar Training Camp.”


    After her rant, Paisley eagerly asked, “How do you feel mating with Alpha Lance? He looks so handsome today. You must be thrilled.”


    Adide propped her chin up and said, “We’re just partnering up. He had a past love, but she’s already mated. Wait, I suspect that person was me. The way he looked at me today was different from before.”


    Paisley rolled her eyes. “How can you even think that? You’ve been in the Shadow Peaks and barely seen him.”