Faithful Ndoma
The Last Alpha —
For 200 years, the village of *Oka'ru* has lived in uneasy peace. Behind the mist and the rain, a werewolf pack guards the forest borders, and the humans pretend not to notice. The balance is kept by one rule: the Alpha leads, the village survives.
When *Alpha Doran* is murdered by royal hunters during the worst downpour in memory, that balance shatters.
His son, *Kael*, was never supposed to lead. Born a werewolf but raised to hide it, Kael spent his life pretending to be ordinary. Now the bloodline has forced the mantle onto him, and his first shift is tearing him apart — body, mind, and control.
But the hunters aren’t done. In 3 days they return with silver, torches, and orders to “cleanse” Oka'ru. Inside the pack, half want to stand and fight. The other half want to abandon the village and run into the wild.
To make it worse, something _else_ is hunting in the forest. The killings don’t look like wolf work. The tracks are too big. The howls are wrong. And every night the rain gets heavier.
The only person Kael can trust is *Amina*, the healer’s daughter. Human. His childhood friend. She’s been keeping his secret since they were 10, and now she’s the only one who can keep him human when the beast wants out. But loving her could get her killed — by hunters, by the pack, or by him.
Kael has to choose:
Run and save himself, stay and lead a broken pack, or become the monster the hunters already think he is.
Because if he fails, Oka'ru burns.
And if he succeeds, he might lose the last piece of himself that’s still human.
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