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Valerie was shocked. Her first wolf, Helga, had only spoken to her after her first shift, not appearing in a mirror.

Most of her kind would hear the voice of their wolf before a shift, but seeing and hearing her wolf through a mirror was strange.

"My wolf? Why are you appearing to me in a mirror? Are you not supposed to take over?"

Valerie did not have a good feeling about this, and Astrid tried to clear her worries with a good explanation.

"I can’t take over yet. My powers cannot be harvested until the moon is full. That is the only time I can take control."

Valerie was still skeptical, even afraid. The wolf she was seeing in the mirror, though just the face, was completely different from the white wolf she had before.

This was a gray wolf. "You don’t look like a Luna wolf, and why did you not recognize Denzel as our mate?" Valerie asked, looking puzzled.

Astrid was patient. For as long as Valerie had the time, she was going to explain everything vividly.

"I am better, stronger, and more powerful than a Luna wolf. Guess what kind of wolf I am?" She asked, trying to sound friendly upon seeing the fear in Valerie’s eyes, but the latter was still cynical about the whole thing.

"I don’t know." She was supposed to be excited, but judging from experience, she knew there was something off.

Astrid was disappointed but explained directly. "I’m an Alpha wolf."

Valerie stiffened, knowing that female Alpha wolves had their disadvantages as well. It was also just as rare as a Luna wolf but stronger and more powerful.

She was not ready to face any more tragedies. "Where is Helga? I just like my Luna wolf."

Astrid knew that she had a lot of explaining to do as Valerie had already accepted being human and not getting her wolf back.

If not for Alpha Denzel, she would not have been assigned. "It was a battle in the ethereal realm. Helga died in your world and can never return. She belongs to the ethereal realm now, and you have been rejected twice."

Somehow, Valerie had gotten over the rejection part and was no longer pained by it as before. It was amazing how Alpha Denzel’s love had slowly washed away her pain.

She was not as desperate for her wolf as she was before, wanting to know the consequences that came with it.

Already, there was an Alpha claiming her as her mate, and she had to be certain that the ethereal realm was not involved in this.

"You were supposed to remain human, but Alpha Denzel kept threatening the moon goddess to give you back your wolf. He met the conditions given, and they decided that you needed a stronger wolf."

Valerie could only imagine which conditions Alpha Denzel met to get her an Alpha wolf but was even more surprised that he had gone to that length.

No wonder he had the confidence that she was going to get her wolf back. Astrid’s conditions almost caused her to lose her mind.

"Should you kill Alpha Denzel, you could take over the pack and rule it without being mated to anyone. Valerie, you don’t need a man anymore."

Valerie’s face was red with anger. Getting a new wolf was supposed to be exciting, but the conditions attached were just ridiculous.

"That is rubbish. I love Denzel. I would never take his pack from him or even think of killing him." It was slowly dawning on her that the ethereal realm was seeing Alpha Denzel as a threat for wanting to get rid of him.

"Alpha Denzel is becoming too powerful. He doesn’t obey the rules and has become a headache to the moon goddess," Astrid explained.

Valerie accepted all the descriptions that they were true, but one thing remained.

"He is a good person. If you are really as powerful as you are, you would know that he has the softest heart there is."

When Astrid accepted the mission, she never thought Valerie would be this stubborn. Being hurt a lot, she should have been happy to be the Alpha of the biggest pack to take revenge on the menfolk, but no.

It seemed that allowing her to fall in love the human way made her emotions stronger. That condition should have been impossible for their kind, but Alpha Denzel somehow managed to heal and win back the heart he once destroyed by his rejection.

"Valerie, you could be Alpha Valerie, and we cannot have conversations about the ethereal realm anymore when the moon is full. Please think about it. The ethereal world needs you to tame him."

Astrid sounded pleading this time, but Valerie was unmoved. That cold Alpha managed to win her love, and that was how it was going to be forever.

"I love him just the way he is. His wildness is what turns me on."

Astrid was displeased by her remark. She was supposed to do this for them to end the rise of power couples, but it seemed impossible.

Now that she appeared to Valerie, she could not also go back, and the fear lingered in the ethereal realm of if Valerie told this to Alpha Denzel.

"This is confidential information. You can’t tell him about it. I am only able to tell you all this because I still belong partly to the ethereal realm. As soon as I possess you, I would be forbidden from letting out information such as these."

Valerie glared at the image in the mirror. Even without her wolf, she found happiness again and was not afraid to live without her. "All that you are telling me is useless."

"No. It isn’t. If you don’t want to usurp his authority, then you should not be mated to him. If you allow him to mark you, your womb would be closed, and you would never be able to give him an heir."

Valerie’s eyes welled up with tears at Astrid’s words. Every Alpha needed an heir, and Denzel was no exception. There was more.