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“I agree, Your Honor. I relinquish all custody rights to my daughter, Mia. I will no longer serve as her guardian for her first shift.”
When the words left my mouth, the Grayhaven territorial arbitration court fell silent.
The look of triumph on my ex-partner Grant Caldwell’s face shattered.
His pack advocate’s jaw went slack.
They had all assumed I would do what I’d done for the past six years—cry, argue, and claw for every last scrap of my rights.
They didn’t understand.
Ten minutes earlier, my fourteen-year-old daughter, Mia, had personally submitted a sworn statement.
“I choose Sloane as my maternal guardian, and I choose her to stay with me through my first shift. I want the registry to recognize her as my mother.”
Mia’s inner wolf had awakened. Under pack law, a cub entering her awakening had the right to choose her primary guardian, and her statement was enough to decide the ruling.
Sloane Mercer had once been my best friend. Now, Grant had used his Alpha authority to register her as Mia’s temporary guardian and the Ironwood Pack’s family representative.
She sat beside him, looking every bit the lady of the Pack House she was so desperate to become.
The daughter I had fought for, for six long years, had long since decided she didn’t belong to me.
So what was left to fight for?
