“Linda”

“Olivia!”

A few other names were called as well, but none as loud as those two. They had to come from

prominent packs indeed, to have been allowed so many onlookers into the small crowd.

Elva, nervous by the noise, hid behind my skirt. I picked her up into my arms.

“Are you frightened?” I asked her.

She nodded.

“Don’t worry,” I said. “They just want to see you. They’re here to cheer for you,

“They aren’t saying my name.”

I kissed the side of her head. “They just don’t know it yet.”

When the royal family arrived to the stage, the camera crew came alive.

Elva.”

Nathan walked his way down the line of us girls. “Heads up, everyone. We’re about to start.”

1 straightened Elva’s dress, then held her close as the director waved and the crowd erupted into a roar.

breath that lifted his entire

for joining us. Those

to introduce you to the selected candidates, any one

is, the

forward, introducing themselves, the pack they were with, and

something about themselves.

wealthy and successful pack. “I

half the crowd

just as prominent. “I thank my pack for their support

of the crowd

at Olivia, but it was

spoke too softly into the microphone for anyone to hear. Nathan asked her to speak up

and froze. Nathan smoothly moved on from her distress, passing the

my turn, Elva helped me hold the microphone. The crowd, watching us began to

is Piper,” I said. “I am twenty years old, and my pack..” I quickly gave the name of my less- prestigious

the selection.”

cheered for me.

the microphone. “And

at least earned a couple of

her bottom lip with her teeth, as Nathan took

but

introductions, we were ushered to a press conference

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