تسجيل الدخولBALZE'S POVSomething about those women felt wrong from the second they walked into the room. Not wrong in an obvious way. Wrong in the way a trap feels before it closes, everything looking too perfect, too natural, too well timed to be a coincidence.I watched the green-eyed one who had been hovering around me earlier move through the crowd after I finally shook her off. She laughed at another Alpha's joke, touched his arm the same way she touched mine, leaned in close the same way she leaned into me. The exact same movements. The exact same timing. Like someone had taught her a routine and she was performing it over and over on different targets.Then I caught it.She brushed past a shorter Alpha near the back wall and something small passed between their hands. A folded piece of paper, quick and smooth, hidden by the angle of their bodies so nobody watching from the front of the room would have seen it. But I wasn't watching from the front. I was watching from the side, and I saw e
Betty's POVEvery conversation in the room died the second we walked through that door. I felt the silence hit us like a wave, dozens of powerful Alphas turning to stare, their eyes moving between Damon, me and the brothers standing behind us like a wall nobody in their right mind would try to climb.I kept my chin up and my back straight even though my heart was hammering so hard I was sure Damon could feel it through the arm I was holding. This was the room that would decide everything. Every face here belonged to someone who had either helped the Chairman destroy families like mine or had stayed silent while he did it.We barely made it ten steps inside before she appeared.She moved through the crowd like she had been waiting for exactly this moment, tall and striking with dark hair falling perfectly over one shoulder and a dress that looked like it cost more than most people earned in a year. She walked straight past me without a single glance, stopped directly in front of Damon
Damon’s POVThe second I heard about the dinner I knew waiting was no longer an option. The Chairman wasn't hosting a meal. He was setting a trap disguised as hospitality, and every Alpha who walked through those doors would either leave as his ally or not leave at all."We're going," I announced to the room before anyone could argue. "Not tomorrow at the gathering. Tonight. At the dinner."Blaze raised an eyebrow. "You want to walk into his party. On his territory. Surrounded by his people.""I want to watch him," I corrected. "I want to see who sits next to him, who avoids him, who looks scared. That room is going to tell us more in one evening than weeks of spying ever could."Adrian nodded slowly from the corner, his arms folded across his chest. "He's right. Powerful men reveal themselves at the table. The Chairman has spent decades reading everyone else. Tonight we read him.""And if he tries something?" Colt asked, his voice steady but his eyes already calculating exits and pos
Colt’s POVLucien spread every document across the table side by side, the founding agreement in the center with the Chairman's signature glowing like a brand against the yellowed paper. Around it he arranged the financial records, the stolen Council files, Adrian's testimony notes and every journal page Betty's mother left behind. Together they formed a picture so clear and so damning that even the most loyal Council supporter wouldn't be able to look away."It fits," Lucien confirmed, leaning back from the table with exhaustion and relief pulling at his face in equal measure. "Everything connects. The payments, the disappearances, the manipulated votes. And now this." He tapped the founding agreement gently. "His own handwriting. His own signature on laws he has been violating for decades. We can expose him in front of every Alpha."The room exhaled. I felt it move through everyone at once, that slow release of pressure that comes when something impossible finally starts looking rea
Blaze’s POVI didn't sleep. The second Lucien told us the witness was gone, I was moving. While everyone else stood around trying to figure out who inside the alliance might have betrayed us, I went straight to the source. The guards.I questioned every single one of them. Not with threats. Not with shouting. I sat across from each man, looked him in the eye and asked the same questions in different ways until the truth started separating from the confusion.It took almost two hours before one of the younger guards finally gave me something useful."He got a letter," the guard admitted, his eyes dropping to the floor. "Maybe an hour before we noticed he was gone. A sealed envelope.""Who delivered it," I pressed, leaning forward."I don't know. It was already sitting outside his door when I checked. I didn't think anything of it because it carried the official seal of the Alpha Council."My jaw tightened. "So you saw a Council seal and assumed it was fine."The guard's face went pale.
Betty’s POVThe name hit me like cold water thrown straight into my face. Travis's father. I hadn't thought about that man in months, maybe longer, because he had never been part of the nightmare his son put me through. He stayed invisible the entire time. Never reached out, never interfered, never once acknowledged that his own son was destroying another person's life piece by piece.And now he was sitting inside the Council Hall like he had every right to be there."Why now," I whispered, more to myself than anyone else. "He never cared about anything Travis did. He watched it all happen and said nothing."Adrian looked up from the map he had been studying, his expression careful and measured. "Travis's father has always stayed neutral during Council matters. Never voted against anyone, never openly supported anyone. That kind of silence isn't weakness, Betty. It's strategy. A man like that only appears when the outcome has already been decided in his favor."My stomach twisted hard
Betty's POVI was sitting on the edge of the bed picking at a thread in the quilt when Colt decided to drop the mother of all truth bombs.It had been a weird few days. You know, the usual. Find out your husband’s a cheating bastard, almost bang his friend in a remote cabin then watch said brother’
Betty's POVColt was standing there as calm as a Sunday morning and behind him were two hulking wolves with fur the color of shadow and eyes that burned like hellfire. Wolves! Giant, no-way-in-hell-are-those-real wolves!!Every instinct screamed RUN and so I spun on my heel with blind panic fueling
Betty's POVHe stopped abruptly and broke the kiss, pulling back like he’d been burned.We were both just staring at each other, panting with this huge “what the fuck did we just do?” hanging in the air between us.His hand which had been cupping my breast through my shirt jerked away like he’d bee
Betty's POVI opened my eyes and saw the three brothers standing around my bed. I wasn't even happy to see them. I wondered what they were all doing there. I remembered taking the medicine from the pharmacy and falling asleep. I never invited them into my room. I didn't understand why they came now







