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.

——

veiled motives in his words were more terrifying than battlefield

Erasmus, war allows no

wolf hair on end. “Especially in decisive battles,

tactics for Darkclaw Town were sound. Minor

Border and won.”

sharp glint in his eyes. “I merely asked a question or two, and look at you, all nervous. No need to be on edge. I was just

the pupils of the gilded wolf head reflecting Adelaide’s tensed shoulders, “After all, the great victory at the Southern Border is the most celebratory event in the werewolf kingdom in

was drenched in cold sweat. This was

laced with hidden blades, deadlier

it, from the same source as the shard in her necklace, now gleamed at her like a heavy icicle, pressing

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earlier sternness had suggested accountability for Lance

couldn’t

she decided, bowing. “I won’t interrupt

Clarissa’s expression softened. “Alright.”

the door, Adelaide took Beata’s sweaty hand–Beata was

and accusatory; had unnerved

leave, Erasmus retracted his

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uncharacteristic apprehension and

sighed. “Why unsettle

I wanted to ruffle her

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