All Chapters of THE ALPHA'S FIERY FATE : Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

NEVAEHThe Council chamber is colder than I expected—not just from the stone walls, but from the stares boring into my skin like frostbite. I'm standing alone in the center of the half-moon table where the Elders sit like judges at a trial. My hands clench at my sides, my fingernails digging into my palms. They told me this would be a formal introduction. Instead, it’s a firing squad.“Is it true you were born to rogues?” the elder with the name Slyverick boldly written on his desk asks in an icy tone.I can tell he hates me already from his look of disgust and constant glares.“Yes” I answer, my voice steady despite the burn in my throat.“And you claim to have no wolf?”A murmur ripples through the Council before I can even speak. Elder Slyverick leans forward, grey eyes sharp. “Is it true? Are you wolfless?!”My mouth opens, but the truth chokes me. I don’t know what I am. Not really. I glance at Kane, seated behind the Elders. He’s relaxed—no, entertained. His lips curve into a sl

The halls are too quiet today. Every step I take echoes against the stone walls like a warning. The full moon is nearly here, though I haven’t checked. I can feel it. Deep in my bones, in the way my pulse beats too fast for no reason, in the sudden ache curling low in my stomach. It’s strange, foreign. My skin tingles like it’s alive, aware of something I can’t name, something I’m not supposed to feel. I pause at the top of the staircase, eyes scanning the darkness. Kane isn’t anywhere. Not in the common hall. Not in the training yard. Not even in the library, which is usually his refuge. My chest tightens. The absence feels… wrong. I shouldn’t care. I tell myself that, but my body disagrees. My fingers twitch at my sides, and a restless heat coils low, like a warning, like a nudge I can’t explain. I feel it in the pull of my heart, in the quickening of my breath. Someone is missing, and it’s him. I move cautiously, steps soft on the polished stone, the familiar scent of the mansi