A Female Alpha’s Revenge

Chapter 56

Adelaide’s POV

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Lance suddenly reached out and straightened the moonstone lamp that had tilted.

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The gesture tightened my throat–my father used to flick his wolf claw in front of me when I was distracted.

“On the night the mate bond was formed, an urgent report came from the Bloodscar Border,” I said, staring at my swaying shadow on the tent wall. “Ulrik left for the front, and we didn’t even finish the full mark. He said he’d help me revive the Frostfang Pack after his triumphant return.”

“What happened next?” His voice was as low as a winter night’s snow.

“I waited for a year,” I said. “I took care of the old Luna for him, sold Frostfang assets to support the Bloodmoon Pack. Until he came back with Velda, announcing Lycan King had granted her as his second mate.”

The tent suddenly filled with the sound of armor shifting. Lance’s wolf claw crushed the gilt dagger scabbard.

I realized his pheromones were thick with furious sulfur, like a volcano about to erupt.

“It’s an outrage,” he ground out, his wolf–head emblem gleaming with lethal intent in the firelight. “What does he take you for? A decoration for the pack?”

I watched his taut shoulders and suddenly recalled my mother’s dying words, “In the Alpha’s world, a she–wolf must hide her claws in gloves.”

But now, faced with this Alpha’s blazing fury, it struck me how absurd my habitual restraint had been.

“Actually, this isn’t the worst of it,” I said, my fingers brushing the wolf–head pendant as I recounted how the Bloodmoon Pack coveted Frostfang assets and slandered me as jealous and unfilial.

“The real insult was their plan to drive me out of the Bloodmoon Pack. They didn’t expect Lycan Erasmus to honor my father as the ‘Eternal Night Battle Wolf and let me dissolve the mate bond while keeping Frostfang assets,” I added.

his armor. “How dare they trample

I would feel hurt,” I said,

a relief, especially since their schemes backfired–Velda’s angry

the Bloodmoon Pack with Frostfang

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my father’s

it was

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securing Ulrik would outshine me, unaware that in

gazed at me for a long moment, then said slowly, “The

Battle will likely prompt an investigation by Lycan Erasmus. The truth will emerge, and someone will have to take full responsibility–but perhaps not in the way

I grasped his implication.

value honor deeply. They’d never admit their future Lycan

on the southern

only Velda but Alpha Zander, the Bloodscar commander, would

preserve unity, would likely

it couldn’t be publicized,

massacre of the Frostfang Pack was out of

how would the

Western Tribes hadn’t harmed civilians, our kingdom kidnapped the Lycan King’s son and massacred

Tribes? If the truth surfaced, the Western Tribes could demand reparations, seeking justice from

price would we pay to

repeatedly–this was why I

but

slaughtered villages with Velda… I could foresee their