The hall held its breath.For one suspended second, everything was quiet like the world itself was waiting to see who would bleed first.Then Alpha Ronan lifted his hand. The motion was absolutely slow.“Take him,” Ronan said.Guards surged forward from every corner of the assembly hall, boots slamming against stone, chains clanking, silver restraints gleaming under torchlight. Beta Alaric stood frozen at first, his mind struggling to catch up with the reality crashing down on him.“No,” he whispered.Then louder. “No—NO!”Ronan’s voice cut through him like a blade. “Beta Alaric, you are stripped of rank, stripped of blood privilege, stripped of every ounce of authority you ever stole. You are nothing now. A fucking nobody.”The words hit harder than any punch.Alaric felt it physically. Like something inside him collapsed. Like the invisible spine that held his pride upright snapped clean in half. His wolf howled in rage, clawing at his skull, screaming that this wasn’t how it was s
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