####Warning: This chapter contains graphic violence and gore. Reader discretion advised.###

Nikolai

It was three days to my coronation, and I’d been even busier than I anticipated. We’d expected a rogue attack earlier this week, but nothing came.

There had been radio silence, thrusting the citadel into a false sense of calm.

Rogues are not an intelligent bunch. No, they’re savages who had spent so much time without an alpha in the wild after being expelled from their packs for ...