Chapter 159

Author POV

Alpha Summer did not ask for mercy.

That, at least, he did not do.

He stood in the lower hall at dawn, wrists bound, shoulders straight, face hollowed out by a night without rank or command. The Alpha crest had already been removed from his cloak. Without it, he looked smaller. Ordinary.

That was the cruelty of it.

Caleb entered without announcement.

No guards followed him in.

No witnesses were invited.

This was not a trial. It was an ending.

Summer lifted his ...