The Witch and Her Four Dangerous Alphas

Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Let the Hunt Begin

Aeron’s POV~

For a moment, I didn’t understand the words.

She escaped. how?

Two simple syllables shouldn’t have held the power to shatter everything. But they did.

My heart stopped beating. My breath caught. I felt the suffocation clawing at my mind.

The hall, once thick with tension, now turned shallow. Murmurs rippled like a wave through the nobles, a hundred heads swiveling toward the doors. But I couldn’t hear them. Couldn’t see anything but that warrior, panting and trembling, sweat glistening on his brow.

I took a step forward, my voice hoarse. "What did you just say?"

His eyes darted up, wild and frightened. "Selene...she—she escaped. She’s gone, Alpha. Vanished before the guard rotation. We—we don’t know how—"

The rest of his sentence drowned in the sound of something knocking behind my back.

Luca had risen first, knocking over a ceremonial goblet, his face twisted in a snarl. "Gone? What the fuck do you mean she’s gone?"

Kael looked dazed, blinking as if trying to wake from a bad dream. "That’s not possible," he muttered, voice hollow. "She was collared. She couldn’t have—"

Lucian said nothing. His eyes were wide, lips slightly parted, like the air had been sucked from his lungs. But I could see the twitch in his jaw, the barely suppressed rage simmering just under his skin.

The room was spinning. My hands curled into fists at my sides.

Like

How dare she?

chest. My bones ached with the need

stop it, low and

us..."

snarled. "I’ll drag her back

turned toward the doors,

was

Escape.

of everything we’d built.

every patrol. If she’s beyond the walls, I want the perimeter combed until not even a

glowing gold. "And

didn’t hesitate. "We’re bringing her back." No

and tearing through his skin. Black fur exploded from his limbs. The

brothers also shifted beside him, each of them trembling with rage too vast for

was the fastest violent and brutal, his jaws snapping before his paws even hit the ground. Luca’s roar shook the walls, and Kael... Kael

darkened the entire temple hall, the towering forms of four black wolves radiating fury. The nobles scattered. Priests fell to their knees in fear. And in the corner of it all, Meriya stared with

"No!"

Her silk-clad body lurched forward, arms outstretched as if she could hold back the storm. But the air had already shifted. Something enraged and feral had awakened

breath hitched. Her hand dropped uselessly at her side.

small, shrinking further under the weight

your Luna," she whispered, eyes darting between them. "You swore it. Before the Moon Goddess, before the

my brothers. Or worse—we did and simply didn’t

even glance her way. His wolf stood rigid, head