For that filthy mutt to pull such a disgusting stunt right under your watch — is that not a direct insult to your power?”
“Exactly!Such audacity cannot go unpunished.Lady Lyra must make an example of her — or the whole territory will lose all discipline!”
The inner den had always been silent.
A place the Alpha once said was“where no harm could ever find me.”*
Now the noise pierced through the stone walls,gnawing at my skull.
A dull ache throbbed behind my temples.
I forced myself upright and looked at my attendant, Willow.
“What’s happening outside?” I asked.
“Why all this chaos?”
She knelt, her voice trembling.
“Luna… word spread that a she-wolf in the pack slept with a guard and is now with child.
Lady Lyra has gathered the ranked females and servants…
They say she’s going to punish the one who defiled the bloodline.”
My brows knit faintly.
There were hundreds of she-wolves in the territory.
Every single one of them dreamed of standing at the Alpha’s side.
Scheming, betrayal, silent wars —they had always existed.
But I had never involved myself.
Since the day he marked me,since the day his hand rested on my stomach and he whispered,
“This pup… will be our future.”