Chapter 138

Third Person’s POV

Adelaide’s heart pounded, her wolf claws silently lengthening beneath her sleeves.

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She finally grasped Lycan Erasmus’s intent — he was using Velda to undermine Alpha Lance’s military prestige.

And she was a key piece in this chess game.

“Lycan Erasmus, I don’t follow your implication,” she said, straightening her spine, “but perfection in battle is impossible. Resources are limited. Alpha Lance left Velda at the rear; she violated orders. How is that Alpha Lance’s fault?”

Her cedar pheromones surged, striking the gilded wolf–head emblem in the hall like a hammer.

Erasmus locked eyes with her, his gaze inscrutable yet slowly curving into a smile. “I haven’t even started, and you’re already defending him.”

Adelaide was baffled but sensed an odd hostility, or something like it.

His final words, tinged with mockery, sent a chill down her spine what did “already defending him”

even mean?

As the Frostfang Pack’s Alpha, she was attuned to royal nuances.

——

motives in his words were more terrifying

war allows no

hair on end. “Especially in

sound. Minor errors were forgivable–we reclaimed

Border and won.”

spring thaw, yet unable to mask the sharp glint in his eyes. “I merely asked

Adelaide’s tensed shoulders, “After all, the great victory at the Southern Border is the most celebratory event in the werewolf kingdom in a

was drenched in cold sweat. This was no

words had been laced with hidden blades, deadlier than the

it, from the same source as the shard in her necklace, now gleamed

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sternness had suggested accountability for

Adelaide couldn’t

leave, she decided, bowing.

Clarissa’s expression softened. “Alright.”

took Beata’s sweaty hand–Beata was as terrified as

sudden visit, brief and accusatory; had

leave, Erasmus retracted

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stern look, he felt uncharacteristic apprehension and forced a smile.

“Why unsettle

composed; I wanted to ruffle her feathers, like in the

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