Auren POV

“For my kind, a challenge ends in death,” I said, voice low and lethal. “You wouldn’t win though on the impossible chance you did, Lorien would still choose for herself. She’d have to decide whether to return and stand beside me as Luna… or stay with the man who murdered her mate. Tell me, Riven who do you honestly think she’d choose?”

He was shorter than me, but arrogance made him seem taller until I stepped in, lowering my head, anger radiating off me like heat ...