Reborn Omega: Avenge Herself Like an Alpha

Chapter 158 The Weight of Power

Aubrey’s POV

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Alpha Henry’s aura blanketed the courtyard like something tangible, a suffocating pressure that made every werewolf around him draw careful, shallow breaths.

The only sound in the dead silence was the splashing in the pool – Mariana’s frantic thrashing- and her cries, growing higher and sharper with pain.

I caught the flicker of exchanged glances among several visiting alpha leaders from other packs. The fear on their faces said everything. Whatever doubts they’d carried here tonight evaporated in an instant beneath the raw dominance Henry radiated.

Then Mariana’s parents recognized her voice.

“My daughter!”

Her mother tried to rush forward, but her father grabbed her arm, holding her back. Even so, his voice was taut when he addressed Alpha Henry, respectful but strained:

“Alpha… I don’t know what my daughter did, but does she truly deserve a punishment like this?”

Henry turned his gaze on him, and the sheer force of the fury in his eyes made Ruben flinch. He’d dealt with the alpha before, but never had he seen the man – so lofty and untouchable in all their past encounters burn with such visible rage.

were weakening, and Ruben swallowed hard before pushing on. “Alpha, the pool is full of wolfsbane. If this goes on much longer, my daughter

Henry…” Adelyn came closer, her voice tinged with urgency. “Let’s pull her out

But Henry said nothing.

unwavering gaze holding her like a predator staring down prey. The alpha pressure in the air froze every muscle in the bystanders‘ bodies –

clearly: those speculative, testing stares that had been aimed at him all night were guttering out one by one. This was Alpha Henry, the leader of the northern werewolves a man who needed no explanation and no

this kind of pressure was steep. I worried

his sleeve. “Alpha… my shoulder really hurts. Can you take me to get it

but I couldn’t risk letting Ella speed

would reveal

me. He stayed where he was, unmovable, the center of the storm. I couldn’t order him around here, not as

begin to walk toward the pool’s edge. Mariana had managed to claw her way to the side, clinging to

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158 The Weight

he going

Mariana’s POV

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into my skin like acid, and my throat felt as if molten metal had been poured down it. I’d dumped enough of the stuff in