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.

on. “Alpha, the pool is full of wolfsbane. If this goes on

with urgency. “Let’s

But Henry said nothing.


a predator staring down prey. The alpha pressure in the air froze every muscle in the bystanders‘ bodies – no one

were guttering out one by one. This was Alpha Henry, the leader of the northern werewolves a man who needed no explanation and no proof. His presence alone could crush

kind of pressure was steep. I worried his body couldn’t sustain

his sleeve. “Alpha… my shoulder really hurts. Can you take

but I couldn’t risk letting Ella speed up my healing here in the

reveal far

He stayed where he was, unmovable, the center

saw him begin to walk toward the pool’s edge. Mariana had managed to claw her way to the side, clinging to it with both hands. Henry looked down at her from above, his gaze, as cold and impersonal as if she were already

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158 The Weight of

was he going to

Mariana’s POV


pull

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wolfsbane in the water was eating 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

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