Tala’s POV It seemed as though my heat wasn’t coming back any time soon when I spent a further two days in my room and nothing happened. Luna Alicia invited me to join her in her office and she showed me how our online newspaper worked, but I saw the sadness in her eyes when she confessed that she would have to look for someone to take over when she retired. I couldn’t believe that she would want to retire so soon. She and the Alpha were still young and, in my opinion, I saw absolutely no need for her to give up the paper just yet. I made a mental note to speak to Ridley about his mother, perhaps continuing on as the person in charge of the paper even after she handed over the Luna duties to me. Oh goddess! I just imagined myself taking over the Luna duties! I wasn’t ready for that! I had