Chapter 74. Mating Ceremony

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March 4th, xxxy

Stunned silence. It can be described as awe, wonder at the glorious couple hand-in-hand, bind by a ceremonial cloth and kneeling at the altar of the Goddess in a pond of sparkling water.

For the Alphas and their plus ones (excluding the human mate because she does not grasp the severity of the situation) their stunned silence is just that. Stunned.

They look at each other for verification then confirmation that Alpha Ulo River is indeed marrying an Alpha.

An Alpha from a different country from a lower class Pack. Yet, an Alpha nonetheless. They glance around them, at the white of the ceremony—the guests and family—and ponder if they are the only ones sane enough to think that Rivers might be crazy.

Crazy for choosing an Alpha for a mate. Even crazier that the Alpha agreed.

Rivers mate kneeling looks nonthreatening, her brown tendrils braided in a crown around her head and white of her traditional groom outfit, the ex