Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)
Tonight, no one was asking me to prove my identity or explain my powers, and nobody was chasing us through a dark tunnel.
For tonight, we were simply celebrating.
Still, I could not completely relax.
My eyes moved across the room, and my smile slowly faded.
Lucius had been suspended. He had not been defeated. That difference mattered.
His authority had been taken away, but he still had allies, wealth, influence, and people who feared him enough to remain loyal. The council hadn’t stripped him of every resource, and I knew better than to believe that one hearing would erase seventeen years of planning. He was dangerous because he had survived for so long, and even without the title that had p