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Chapter 22: The Silver Tongue of Desperation

Author: Mercy Babe
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-05 03:34:47

Benjamin had always prided himself on one thing above all: his tongue. Not the tongue of battle — though he’d trained with steel and claw in his youth — but the tongue of persuasion, manipulation, the quiet lure that could wrap itself around a mind until it bent to his will.

Tonight, though, his words had begun to lose their power.

The council hall he once ruled with voice and gesture now listened politely, coldly, their eyes shifting elsewhere when he spoke. Troy’s name carried more weight than his arguments, and Daisy’s reappearance as Luna had bound the packs in a renewed sense of loyalty that Benjamin couldn’t fracture no matter how eloquently he painted his speeches.

And so the man who had once thought himself inevitable now found himself pacing the confines of his chamber, firelight licking the walls, wine half-finished on the table beside him.

He muttered aloud, as though the shadows might answer:

“Every ladder collapses if you climb the wrong rungs. Perhaps I’ve reached too hi
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