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Chapter 15

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Ares’s POV

Dawn bled gray through the stained-glass windows of the council hall, turning the air cold and metallic. The elders took their seats one by one, their silence sharper than any accusation. I stood at the center of the room, every muscle locked to keep from pacing.

Rowan’s voice cut through first. “Alpha Ares of Red Moon, you’ve asked for this meeting. Speak.”

“I’m not asking for mercy,” I said. “Only reason. What happened at the feast was defense. You all saw the assassins.”

A murmur rolled through the chamber. Some looked away; others met my eyes with open contempt.

“She killed them,” an elder hissed.

“They came for her,” I countered.

“And you think that makes her innocent?”

I breathed slowly. “I think it makes her one of us someone who deserves a hearing, not a sentence.”

Rowan’s knuckles whitened against the table. “Your compassion blinds you. That blast could have destroyed the hall.”

“Yet it didn’t,” I said. “No one else was harmed.”

“By chance.”

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