Mag-log inALFRED POVThe guards took Wanni and Lucas away. And I watched them go. Hanni stood beside me with her hands in mine. She was shaking with anger, but she was strong.I looked at Marcus and said in low voice. “Get everyone to the great hall. Now.”Marcus nodded. “Everyone?”“Everyone. The pack needs to see what happens when someone tries to destroy what is mine.”He left hurriedly. Andre walked towards me and asked, “What about Mira?”I thought for a moment. Mira had confessed and she had told Hanni the truth. That is forgivable.“Bring her too,” I said. “She needs to hear this.”Andre left. I turned to Hanni. Her face was pale and her eyes were tired. “You do not have to come,” I said. “You can rest.”She shook her head firmly. “I want to be there. I want to see her face when you tell everyone what she did.”I pulled her close. “Then we go together.”She nodded and we walked to the great hall.We met the hall full when we arrived. Wolves stood together in groups, whispering together.
HANNI POVAlfred held my hands tightly as we walked through the halls. His grip on my arm was firm and strong. I could feel the anger coming off from his body. I was scared. But I was not alone. Alfred was with me. That was all that mattered.We reached the east wing and met the door still open. Wanni and alucas were inside. They looked up when they saw us.Wanni’s face became white and Lucas look up quickly and raised his hands like he wanted to explain.“Alfred,” Lucas said. “This is not what you think.”Alfred did not answer. He walked into the room and I followed closely behind him.Wanni stepped back nervously with her eyes wide with terror. “Alfred please, Hanni is lying. She made everything up. She is jealous. She always wanted you to herself. She—”“Stop.” Alfred growled coldly. “I heard you. Hanni heard you. We know what you did.”Wanni shook her head. “You do not understand. She is trying to destroy me. She always wanted to destroy me. Ever since we were children.”I looked
HANNI POVI walked away from Mira with my heart pounding heavily.She was still on her knees when I left her. Still crying and begging, and I did not look back. I could not look back.My mind was spinning in my head. Mira confessed. She said she had put herbs in Alfred’s drink. She said Wanni made her do it. She said Alfred never touched my sister.Ofcourse I already knew that. Alfred told me. But hearing it from Mira made it real. Made it solid.Now I had proof.I stopped walking and looked down at my shaking hands. My heart was beating furiously in my rib cage and all this time, Wanni had been lying. Smiling. Pretending. She made me think my mate betrayed me.And I believed her.I felt sick. I wanted to scream. I wanted to cry. I wanted to find Wanni and make her pay for what she did.But I did not know where she was. She was probably with Lucas. Laughing. Planning their next move.I sat in a bench near the fountain and breathed in hard to calm my nerves.I thought about Alfred. Abo
MIRA POVI could not sleep.Every night, the same thing. Anytime I closed my eyes, I see Hanni’s face. The way she looked when she came out of Alfred’s study. Broken. Destroyed. Like her whole had ended.And I did that. I helped Wanni do that.I sat up on my bed. The room was dark. The palace was quiet. But my mind was loud, filled with guilt and shame. Filled with the memory of Hanni’s tears.I got up and walked to the window. The moon was high and the garden was empty. Down below, I could see the bench where Hanni liked to sit. She was not there. She was probably in her room, still crying, still hurting.Because of me.I thought about going to her to tell her everything. But what if she didn’t believe me? What if she hated me more than she already did? I deserved it. I deserved all of it.I sat on the floor and put my head in my hands, and cried bitterly. I had been so stupid. So jealous. So blind.When Wanni came to me, I thought she wanted to be my friend. She smiled at me. She s
ALFRED POVIt’s been four days. Four days Hanni had been avoiding me for four days.I sat in my study and stared at the door. Everytime I heard footsteps innthe hall, my heart jumped. But she never came. She never even sent a message. Marcus walked in without knocking. He glanced at me briefly and shook his head.“You look terrible,” he said.“I feel terrible.”He sat on the couch and stretched his legs for a moment, then he said with a sure smile on his face. “She will come around. Just give her time.”“How much time exactly?” I stood up and walked to the window. “It has been four days, Marcus. Four days. She will not look at me. She will not talk to me. She will not even let me near her.”“Because she is hurt. She saw something she did not expect to see. Give her space to process.”I turned around and snarled under my breathe. “But I did not do anything. I was asleep. I do not even remember Wanni being there.”“I know. You know. But she doesn’t know. She only knows what she saw.”I
HANNI POVThree days had went by quickly since I found Wanni in Alfred’s study.Three days since my world broke.I stayed in my chambers most of the time. I told the servants I was sick. They brought food. I did not eat. They asked if I needed anything and I said no.Simone came every day to check on me. She knocked on my door repeatedly and called my name and I did not answer.“Hanni please open the door,” she said after the tenth time.I sat still on the bed and said nothing.“I know you are in there. I can hear you breathing.”I pulled my blanket tighter around me to muffle my sounds.“Alfred is going crazy,” she said through the door. “He keeps asking where you are. He does not understand why you will not see him.”Good. Let him wonder. Let him be hurt like I was. “He did not do anything, Hanni. You believe that, right?”I closed my eyes tightly. I wanted to believe it. But I saw Wanni there. Her dress was loose and she had a wide smile on her face. His shet was open and his eyes
ALFRED POV“The final security roster for the northern gate, Alpha,” Sir Briggs stated clearly as he placed the parchment on my desk. “Every guard has been personally vetted. No one with even a distant connection to Jameson is on duty.”I scanned the list, with half of my mind on the words, while t
HANNI POVI have never been more happy to see my best friend than I was at the stall stands with Simone, surrounded by rouge wolves, their fangs flashing menacingly and their claws out.“Josh—”He flashed me a look that suggest I keep quiet, which I did immediately.“Rufus,” he began, with his arms
ALFRED POV“Alpha.” The court officials all stood up to greet the old Alpha as he waddled past them and he nodded in response as he settled admits grunts and winces on his throne.“Everyone settle down.” He barked and looked at his Beta, who stood motionlessly in between two Buffy looking guards. “
HANNI POV“Simone?”I called out again and again at her retreating back as she descended the corridors down the hall, and she turned to look at me in shock as if seeing me for the first time.And to be honest…she might well be.She took a quick glance over my shoulders and being certain I was alone







