The gasps that echoed were deafening.Caspian's face went bone-white. Vivian looked as if she had been physically struck.Silas's Alpha power rolled out. It wasn't a burst, but an unveiling. The full, serene, and terrifying depth of his power unfolded. Not to attack, but simply to exist without restraint. It was the difference between a lightning bolt and the gravity of a planet.A palpable force.Caspian grunted. A sound of pure, animal distress. His own Alpha power, which he had always worn like armor, crumpled inward. Not defeated in battle, but rendered irrelevant.His knees buckled.He was forced down onto the cold marble floor. Not by violence, but by the sheer, humiliating physics of hierarchy. His body betrayed him, obeying the deeper law written in his blood.The silence was absolute. Then, chaos erupted.Caspian made a raw, animal noise from the floor."You and him?" Rage and humiliation warred in his eyes. "My uncle?"He tried to surge up against the invisible weight."Auror
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