Chris’s POV

The prophecy must have been mistaken. I was the one who should have been the Silver Wolf’s mate.

I agreed I had flopped it and might never get another chance, so it would stay flopped—but with me as Alpha King. Your Silver would fulfill her destiny, but no presence of any new mate, at least not until later. That was all the mercy I could give.

"I have it all under control, Zeke," I told my wolf as he kept murmuring on and on about cooperating with ...