The royal coronation was coming soon and yet nothing was happening. Isolde knew that she couldn't entrust the role of the Alpha to her son's hands. He was easily affected by his mate and refused to move when their victory was already so close.
For someone like Isolde who was already used to getting everything that she wanted, the rejection that Leland, her eldest son, gave her was unacceptable and she wanted to take control.
The former Luna wanted to regain the same authority she had back when she was still the mate of Alpha Leon. If Leland was going to continue to act like a miserable and pathetic fool, then he was really not fit to rule the Blood River Pack.
"If only my second son was alive," Isolde sighed as she remembered her second child, her beloved Lowell. "I wouldn't have had to worry about anything and could have abandoned that abhorrent Leland long ago. He could have died with the Hansleys for all I cared."