ALPHA'S REGRET, QUEEN'S REVENGE
I know it in my bones because my stomach churns, my heart aches as there's a shift in the wind—a cooler, heavier wind.
The music breaks, the crowd's buzzing is replaced by anxious silence and then they come in through the ceremonial arch, Audacus with a triumphant smirk plastered across his ageless face. The same smirk I’d seen before every destruction he orchestrated.
He walks like he owns the world, and behind him came the storm, Serenia—silver flowing over her like a mantle, dripping venom and arrogance. A baby in each arm, a third boy toddling beside her, all of them patently Ryan's sons. I see the truth written in the angles of their features—the sharp jaw, the storm-grey eyes behind th