A Female Alpha’s Revenge

Chapter 5

Adelaide’s POV

Beata didn’t argue further, sensing my resolve.

I wasn’t mad. Beata, an Omega raised in Frostfang, still had that innocence—they didn’t bully Omegas there.

But I, as Alpha-born, had to stand my ground.

Outside the palace, time stretched endlessly.

Finally, the doors opened. Fabian, Lycan Erasmus’s Beta, emerged.

“Adelaide, Lycan Erasmus will see you now.”

Relief washed over me. I nodded gratefully and followed him in.

The obsidian tiles carried hints of dragon’s breath pheromones—every step felt like walking on ice.

I stared at the patterns under Fabian’s crimson cape, blood rising in my throat as my wolf clawed at my consciousness, straining against the invisible aura from the throne.

The cedar scent that once clung to my father’s armor now froze my nape with glacial cold.

I knelt before Lycan Erasmus, head bowed.

shattered moonstone patterns on the

boots crushed wolf-shaped reliefs beneath him, grinding my shadow’s

His voice boomed like glaciers colliding, sending dust cascading from the

my throbbing neck

intrude, but I beg

creaked. A surge of white musk

slammed the floor, shoulder blades

blurred vision, I saw my broken

said, his voice as unyielding as three years ago in

aura, I lifted my

slit pupils narrowed, aurora-like energy swirling in his eyes—the legendary “Sky’s Eye” that once tore apart the Northern Bear

every word a fight. “I’m asking for a new one—permission to rejct my mating bond

split canines bit through my lower lip,

to reject Ulrik?” Lycan Erasmus’s tone was filled with

Erasmus, Alpha Ulrik and Velda used their battle merits to ask for your permission to form a mating bond. Today marks the anniversary of my father and brothers’ death. I want to use their merits to

you know what awaits you outside Bloodmoon, Adelaide?” Erasmus’s voice held

you’ll

King, he’d

my father and brought

was sent to the elders, he

know,” I forced a smile. “I won’t stand in Ulrik and Velda’s way. If their love’s true, it’s the Moon Goddess’s will. I won’t

gone, Adelaide. Will you return to