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.

on the shattered moonstone patterns on the

candelabra sparked as Erasmus’s snow-leopard boots crushed wolf-shaped reliefs beneath him, grinding my shadow’s head

His voice boomed like glaciers

my hands to my throbbing

Erasmus, I’m sorry to intrude, but I beg your

throne creaked. A surge of white musk hit the

floor, shoulder blades groaning under

my broken nails digging into my

his voice as unyielding as three years ago in Silvermoon Canyon. “I can’t take

aura,

swirling in his eyes—the legendary “Sky’s Eye” that once tore apart the Northern

to rescind your decree,” I said, every word a fight.

bit through my lower lip, blood filling my

Lycan Erasmus’s tone was filled with

back tears. “Lycan 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

what awaits you outside Bloodmoon,

what you’ll face after

became Lycan King, he’d visit Frostfang

my father

to the elders, he faded from my

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

you return to ruins? What’s next for