Chapter 153

Author POV

No one spoke for a long time.

The kind of silence that followed wasn’t shock anymore—it was judgment.

Alpha Summer stood at the edge of the hall, his face drained of color. The lie had finally collapsed, and with it, the fragile power he had clung to for years. He didn’t shout. He didn’t deny it.

He knew it was over.

One of the eldest council members stepped forward, staff striking the stone once.

“Alpha Summer,” the elder said, voice cold and formal, ...