"I can never allow such a person to become Luna, even if she's my sister!" Maeve shouted as she slowly walked forward, with visible tears in her eyes.
Tahra didn't know what she had to say but she could tell that whatever it was, wouldn't be good.
Almost like Zane knew it too, he opened his mouth to speak.
"Meave Faldel, even if you're her sister you don't have the authority to disturb the ceremony! Whatever you want to say can be said after!" Zane said speaking in a commanding tone.
His eyes blazing with hidden fury as he set his gaze on Maeve, something that instantly shut her up.
However, Maeve had just lowered her head her eyes blazing with anger when she heard her mother speak from behind her.
"Yes Alpha, but as her family. There's something we need to bring to your knowledge!" Julia said moving out from behind Maeve to reveal herself.
'This is bad! This is really bad!' was all Tahra could think as she realized that the fact that her family was willing to make a scene in front of the entire pack, meant that they were fully determined and had a good plan to ensure that she didn't become Luna.
'They want Meave to become Luna that bad???' Tahra thought unable to wrap her head around it as she listened to her mother speak.
Saying words she could have sworn that her mother would never say about her, regardless of how little she liked her compared to Meave.
"My daughter is a whore! She shouldn't be Luna! I've warned her several times but on several occasions, I've seen her bring men into the house, discarding the fact that she's the Alpha's mate!"
Tahra was stunned.
Beyond stunned she was too flabbergasted to speak. Beyond that, she lightly felt that she had been pulled into a dream that could only be a nightmare.
"It's true! She doesn't deserve to be Luna! "A deep voice spoke up from behind Julia, one that of course belonged to her father Joe.
"As much as it pains us to say this, we even have evidence to back up our claims. Instead of Tahra, it would be preferable for Zane to pick my second daughter instead!"
Tahra was yet to speak as even Zane who had speaking was unable to find space to do so as everyone watched Tahra's family speak one after the other, badmouthing her.
But although Zane and Tahra couldn't, Razon had no issues interjecting Joe just as he opened his mouth to speak again.
"Maeve is the complete opposite of her sister and I believe—""
"I won't have the ceremony disrupted Joe!" He said in a slightly higher tone that carried across the vast field they all stood on.
"We'll finish the ceremony then we'll talk," Razon said. To him, it didn't matter since a luna can always be removed if indeed what they said was true.
Moreover seeing the look on his son's face, he could tell that he wanted Tahra, the woman by his side and no one else.
But Razon had just finished speaking when he was shocked to hear someone else open their mouth to speak, regardless of the stormy gaze he sent their way.
"I have evidence!" Drey loudly declared in a loud tone, one that ensured that everyone there could hear as he slowly opened the laptop he had in his hand.
Before Razon could say a word, Drey had snapped open the laptop and slowly began to play a video, one with sexually explicit sounds.
"You can come closer and confirm! Its my sister!" Drey said, with a satisfied expression on his face. Tahra was alarmed to hear Drey speak. But it was the sounds coming from the video playing on the laptop that horrified her more, as she moved closer to it, shocked to see herself lying on the bed, eyes closed with a strange man grunting over her.
"No one touched me! I made sure of it!' Tahra thought to herself, her eyes searching out Zane, whose entire focus was also on the laptop.
"Its not true! I swear it! He-he didn't touch me!" Tahra said as loud as she could, but the looks on the faces of the people around her was destabilizing.
Even Zane had a dark look on his face with his entire focus on the computer instead of turning around to listen to Tahra speak.
"Trust me Razon! As a loyal member of the pack I cannot allow her to be Luna even if she's my daughter!" Joe spoke with a vastly dissapointed expression one that instantly made the other members of the pack pity him.
"I've heard rumors but this is completely unexpected! Still, there's always a tiny bit of truth in them!"
"If even her family can boldly say this then it must be true!"
"Just because our Alpha is blind to it doesn't mean that we can allow him pick such a Luna,"
"She looks so innocent but she's actually a devil!"
The whispers were loud as most of the pack members didn't even bother to lower their tone as they whispered amongst themselves.
Slowly Razon could tell that the situation was spiralling out of control but he still wanted to try and cover things up.
"Silence!" He ordered but he had just spoken when Zane finally opened his mouth to speak.
"The ceremony will continue as usual and after we'll deal with the video!" He announced, urging Razon with his eyes to hurry up and place the bone necklace around Tahra's neck as fast as he could.
But Razon wasn't fast enough as another person opened their mouth to speak from the circle.
"Brother, I think with this amount of evidence there's no way we can continue with the ceremony. How can we possibly allow a whore to be our luna?" Xion, Zane's half-brother opened his mouth to speak with a smug look on his face, as his gaze swept over Tahra, who instinctively glared at him as she listened to him badmouth her.