ALPHA KIERAN'S POV

~ 3 days to the ancient rites~

The sound of the scream was still ringing in my ears when the chaos truly began. It was a woman convulsing on the floor, I stood up and walked towards the scene but as I got there, her body went still. The maids pressed themselves against the walls, eyes widened with fear. The woman who’d collapsed lay still while her friends wept beside the dead body.

And then I saw it. An elderly woman, with ...