Chapter 111Rohan POVThe invitation arrived wrapped in courtesy and edged in threat. Regional Alpha summits always pretended to be about cooperation—trade routes, border disputes, neutral zones. But everyone in the room knew what they really were.They were tests and a way to see who had started to lean too far into comfort, into attachment, into the kind of softness that others could exploit.I stood at the tall windows of the council hall and watched the valley below as the last of the delegations arrived. Banners snapped in the wind. Wolves moved in tight formations, their leaders at the center like the sun around which the rest of their pack revolved.Once, I liked that image as it portrayed power as gravity. Now it felt like a trap.My wolf stirred under my skin, restless, sensing what my mind already knew. The air in this place wasn’t just tense—it was sharpened. Every greeting, every nod of respect, every polite smile carried a question behind it.Where do you stand now, Rohan
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