Astrid’s POVThe Alpha Hall was already awake when we arrived.Torches burned too steadily along the stone walls, their flames controlled—disciplined—like everything Lucian touched. The circular chamber hummed with low voices, the sound of wolves pretending this was just another meeting, another night, another decision that wouldn’t fracture the world.But my skin knew better.The council ring sat at the center, carved with lunar glyphs worn smooth by centuries of argument and bloodshed. Twelve seats. Twelve votes. Twelve ways to end everything.Lucian stood at the head of the chamber when we entered.Alpha Lucian did not look like a man about to summon a god.He looked calm.That was the most terrifying part.His presence didn’t press against me the way raw power did. It didn’t roar or dominate. It waited. Like a door politely held open while the world decided whether to step through.Sebastian stiffened beside me. I felt it instantly—the familiar pull of father to son, Alpha to heir
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