All Chapters of Mated To My Beta Stepbrother: Chapter 101 - Chapter 102

An alliance gathering of werewolf communities was held at a neutral estate three hours from Western Grove territory. The estate had been chosen precisely because it belonged to no one present and its ownership history was complicated enough that every delegation arrived on equal footing, which was the diplomatic equivalent of removing the table from the room so no one could claim the head of it.It was enormous and it still felt crowded, and I had been in enough rooms with competing supernatural hierarchies by this point to understand that the tension between rival Alphas did not respond to physical space the way ordinary social discomfort did, because what filled the room was not bodies but the low-frequency hum of contested dominance and the biological awareness of powerful wolves in each other’s presence that existed underneath every carefully worded exchange and every diplomatic smile that did not fully reach the eyes behind it.I arrived as part of Daemon’s official delegation in