Chapter 168

Third Person’s POV

Madison used the money she’d extorted from Priscilla to further fuel the gossip in bars and coffeehouses, paying bartenders and baristas to sensationalize Adelaide’s past mating with Ulrik.

Seeing no response from the Frostfang Pack–and noting they’d sealed their borders and withdrawn from public life–Madison assumed Adelaide was cowering in fear of the public backlash.

The thought filled her with schadenfreude,

Emboldened, she approached Lycan Erasmus at the palace, arguing that Lance’s choice of Adelaide as his mate could undermine his judgment and plant seeds of trouble for kingdom management.

For the royal family’s stability, she insisted Adelaide must be stopped from becoming Alpha Lance’s Luna.

To her surprise, Lycan Erasmus’s expression darkened. His musk pheromones turned icy, pressing down on Madison.

His wolf eyes narrowed to vertical slits in the candlelight, “What are you implying?” he demanded,

“Lance and Adelaide are both warriors who’ve reclaimed the Southern Border and protected our werewolves. They’ve been loyal to me and the royal family. Moreover, Lance and I are brothers with a deep bond. He harbors no ill intentions. Don’t entertain groundless suspicions,” he said.

Madison, taken aback, quickly resumed her condescending tone. “Foolish! How can one fully trust others‘ hearts?

Before she could finish, a surge of Lycan Erasmus’s musk forced her to step back,

black blood as her

presence.

a mask of displeasure. He removed his family ring and slammed

flames in all the lamps flickered wildly. His silver- gray wolf hair flared, and his gaze turned

carefully! If such talk. reaches the Royal Elder Council, they might accuse you of disrupting the brotherly bond between Lycan Erasmus and Alpha Lance. It would

Davidson are already engaged. If Lycan Erasmus were to break their bond, how

at the ring on the

words meant little to her, but she couldn’t ignore

ring was a gift from the former Lycan King–a sign of authority.

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on the table. It was a

took a deep breath and stepped back. “Lycan Erasmus, I

truly cared for the younger generation, you’d offer Lance and Adelaide gifts like estates

advice is hard to hear. Let’s pretend

carried a glacial chill. “You really shouldn’t frequent the palace, especially the council chamber. As Lycan King, I may not be flawless, but I have

neck mark burned, her silver–gray

wolf growled a warning in her mind, but she swallowed the

her palms, her royal Lycan pheromones surged–for

stared at the frost on Erasmus’s shoulder

long silence, she turned and left without another word, her entire being

been spoiled and domineering. She likely didn’t mean

my aunt thinks me foolish, it’s no

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