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Chapter 99

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They came in like they owned the place.

Mirah first, her husband behind her, and three elders trailing close men who had smiled in Kael’s face for years and bowed for favors they never earned.

I was already standing at the head of the table.

Kael was beside me, still pale from recovery, but his eyes were sharp. He didn’t need to speak. His silence said enough.

“Alpha Kael,” Elder Alric started, fake respect coating every syllable, “we have come to discuss the leadership of this pack. Many have concerns about your health and… the choices being made in your name.”

I looked straight at Mirah. “You mean the choices being made by me.”

Her smile was all teeth. “You were never meant to make any choices, dear. You were meant to stay where you belong.”

Kael’s voice cut in, low. “Where exactly is that?”

She turned to him with the softness she used to wear like perfume. “You know I have always supported you. But the pack is uneasy. They believe a human can’t hold the Lun
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