Semua Bab Rejected by the Alpha, Crowned by the Lycan King: Bab 31 - Bab 36

Thorncrest Hall had not changed.That was the cruelty of it.Part of me had expected the room to look different now that I remembered dying in it. Smaller maybe. Less polished. Less powerful once the truth was stripped from the ceremony.It did not.The black marble still shone like frozen water. Silver chandeliers still hung from the vaulted ceiling, each flame caught in crystal and multiplied until the whole hall glittered with cold light. Crimson banners fell from the balconies. Thorncrest wolves filled every level, dressed in formal black and silver, their faces turned toward me with hunger, contempt, curiosity, and fear.The room smelled of roses.Not real ones.

Damien asked me to begin with death.Of course he did.He made it sound like law.Like courtesy.Like challenge order.But I knew him.He wanted spectacle.He wanted the hall to watch me crack open my own wound and bleed testimony across the same black marble where he had killed me.He wanted the wolves to hear my story from my shaking mouth so he could tilt his head, soften his eyes, and make my truth look like trauma.The white gown waited beside him.Mira stood near Selene, chained and crying sile

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