Ava POV
Unfortunately, I was silent for so long that Chris seemed to take it as my answer. He shot up from his chair with a delighted smile and said, “Well, we have a busy day ahead of us!”
Well, I agreed with that and said so.
“First, we have to go to the Elders and tell them to expedite the election of the new Alpha.”
I noticed he said “tell,” not “ask,” but I still smiled and walked back with him to the Square while he summoned the Elders on his phone. We ended up meeting in the conference room Chris seemed to prefer, the seven of us taking up all but one of the chairs around the dark table.
I nodded to each of them in kind as they acknowledged me as Acting Luna: Elders Degas, Elise, Claire, Fatima, and Bradley. Chris waited with quietly restrained impatience as we all inquired aft
