“I don’t understand,” I asked Muriel when we were back safe at the mountain. The pack had given me a whole chamber when they brought me to their home. The rooms had been carved into the side of the mountain by creatures long gone. My eldest sister Brenna had her own chamber with her mates and children. Muriel lived nearby with her own mates, and visited often. “I thought the Alphas would give me as a prize to a strong warrior, just as you were.”
“Be happy, Fleur. The Alphas are allowing you to choose a mate.” Was there a touch of bitterness in Muriel’s tone?
“And if I do not wish to choose one?”
Muriel pursed her lips. “Then the Alphas will choose for you.”
I rubbed my head, which hadn’t stopped throbbing since the incident with the Grey Man. “Forcing us to wed Berserkers...it is madne
