A Female Alpha’s Revenge

Chapter 21

Third Person’s POV

Velda smirked. “I can’t mimic her meekness. But if I were to pretend to be sweet and coo…”

She crossed her arms, forced a sugary grin, and drawled, “Honey…”

She shuddered dramatically. “Ugh, goosebumps! How does she stand being so

fake?”

Ulrik shuddered too, but the act reminded him of Adelaide her gentle voice always firm, her posture straight as a wolf’s pride

flag, never bending to please.

Velda strode onto the boardwalk, her combat boots tapping sharply.

It was a pity they couldn’t keep half her assets, but with Adelaide gone, Velda would be the undisputed Luna.

She no longer had to persuade herself with the title of “secondary mate.”

Ulrik stayed behind, sitting on a lakeside bench.

The parchment he received that afternoon blazed like a laser, piercing through his mental fog.

Memories, buried by battle and ambition, surfaced slowly–ripples on the lake bringing fragments to light.

He remembered the first time he saw Adelaide at a werewolf gathering, standing by a floor–to–ceiling window, conversing with

elders.

came to Frostfang to court her, she sat on a leather sofa,

breeders. Can you do

his life to her then,

preparations, the emergency orders on the day of

the pack borders, the heart–wrenching reluctance he

do was watch her figure grow smaller in the distance, the white

against the Northern

stopped thinking about Adelaide, focusing instead on strategizing with Velda and the wolf

a massive gray wolf, her claws

female wolves could be so

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coordinated scarves and

the trenches eating compressed rations, he preferred listening to

in the sand, her

her beliefs: female wolves needed no special protection–strength was its

confidence, her sharp analysis of battle plans, her unwavering gaze–she was everything Adelaide

understood, was safeguarded by the blood of

forgot the seven graves in Frostfang’s

Frostfang, Adelaide walked

the Alpha and Beta residences had all

walls, those that refused to wash away, had been

in favors from distant clan members to help unload and

bustle died down, Halsey

to be lively and bustling, but now