The world stops spinning. I can clearly hear the rhythmic, hungry crackle of the burning home, the steady drip of melting snow hitting the mud, and the frantic, irregular pounding of my own heart, but everything else is muted, as if the air itself has become pressurized. The enforcer’s words hang in the freezing night air like thick, poisonous smoke. “Body and bone.” The phrase repeats in my mind, a rhythmic torture that threatens to shatter the last remnants of my composure.I spin around to face my father. He is huddled in the mud, a pathetic, shivering mound of a man, his face turned away from the harsh, clinical light of Daryl’s presence. The shame is etched into every deep wrinkle of his face, a map of failures that led us to this exact, horrific moment. He doesn't look like an Alpha anymore. He doesn't even look like a man anymore; he looks like a crumbling monument to a legacy he couldn't maintain."What does he mean, Dad?" I scream, my voice cracking, a jagged, ugly sound in t
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