Chapter 51 : Rejection

*Ember’s POV*

Lukas wanted to take me as his Queen.

I wanted to scream, or cry, or vomit, but my body went numb and all I could do was sit there are stare at Rhys in disbelief.

How could this have happened? I had always known that the throne was dangerous. Shifters cheated, lied, and even killed to call themselves the Alpha King of the Silver Crescent. Even my own father had murdered his predecessor, poisoning him with silver in the same way Lukas had done to him.

But I had never lived through that age. I had never known a time of war in Allusia. But this, I realized, was something more than outright war. Only an hour ago, it had been the rebels against my father, the Alpha King. Lukas had sided with the rebels, even led them depending on which pack you talked to. Now that he had claimed the throne, the rebels would split into smaller factions. The result would be immeasurable chaos within the rebel ranks, not to mention the severely dropped odds of the Whitelarks succeedin