Chapter 16

Lyra’s POV

The alpha, Xavier as I had learned his name to be, had been absent from the manor for a while now.

“He'd be back soon and just in time for your official ceremony in two weeks” Rune had told me when I inquired of him.

It's been a week since then and it has been bittersweet.

Xavier had given me a job during my stay in the manor and I had forgotten how life was treating me just before my acceptance into the Darkmoon pack.

But occasionally Luca had been a cause, a good one at that, to remember how I got here.

I was fascinated with the couture the pack ran, one of their many strings of income, that I flung myself immediately to them when given the chance.

“Very good,” Lucas had said when he heard me make my choice.

“The couture is my personal favorite, it's a good thing you can work for me from there”

“Work? For you?!” I asked at the top of my voice.

He had satisfaction written all over his face after my outburst.

“Yes,” he responded in his casual arrogance, “do you have somethi