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Alpha by Right

Penulis: Richard Henshaw
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Chapter 041–

Alpha by Right

The stone chamber was cold against my bare feet, but I barely felt it. My skin burned with the echo of Mama Oya’s funeral pyre, the grief still raw, my heart a wound left open to the mountain winds. The rogues and outcasts who had followed me this far were gathered in a half circle, watching, their eyes sharp with expectation.

Expectation and fear.

I could hear it in the tremor of their breaths, smell it rolling off them like iron and frost. They had lost before. They had followed others before. Every Alpha who had risen against the established packs had eventually fallen. Some were crushed by the Council. Some were betrayed from within. Most were simply too weak to hold together wolves who had been broken by rejection, exile, and pain.

And now all those shattered pieces had gathered here, staring at me.

The Matron’s Crest sat on the pedestal before me—an ancient stone disc etched with curling runes and the faint shimmer of moonlight carved into its veins.
Richard Henshaw

Adelina claims the Crest, unites the rogues, but the mystical vision warns her Sylvia is moving against her—and even Lux is in danger.

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