After dining in the halls, Conroy kissed his mate goodbye and went about his kingly staples as he had to leave the castle whilst Amelia sat upon a low stool, crooning to her bairn as she patted her swollen middle.

　　Her mind drifted to a conversation she once had in recent times with Gamma Ursa, one of the she-wolves in the Brown-onyx pack of the Valerian kingdom.

　　Gamma Ursa is the second she-wolf in charge of matters concerning the King’s Luna after Sian who is ...