THE ALPHA HE WASN’T ALLOWED TO WANT
“Your bond doesn’t just satisfy the clause. It satisfies the conditions of the original founding agreement. Which means if we reach what I buried and ratify it tonight, every law written after the original Accord becomes contestable. Every bloodline restriction. Every succession mandate. Every rule that has told wolves who they are allowed to love.”
The chamber went so silent I could hear the luminescence beneath us.
Magnus said, very softly, “All of it.”
“All of it,” Caska confirmed.
I looked at Nico.
Nico looked at me, and his face was doing something I’d never seen it do, not the controlled blankness he used for pain, not the careful steadiness he used for fear, not the sharp-edged bright