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.

fear. Like we were nothing. Like

How dare she?

it then, my wolf lurching to the surface, a violent surge of fury and disbelief crashing into my chest.

stop it, low and primal. The nobles flinched. Even the warrior dropped

defied us..." I

"I’ll drag her back

rage and disbelief burning behind their gaze. My pulse thundered. I turned toward the doors, the memory of her eyes flashing behind my lids—the hatred, the

this was her

Escape.

everything we’d built.

patrol. If she’s beyond the walls, I

me, eyes glowing gold. "And when

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

his skin. Black fur exploded from his limbs. The pain

cracking filled the hall as his brothers also shifted beside him, each of them trembling with rage too vast

roar shook the walls, and Kael... Kael didn’t speak. His wolf emerged with eerie silence, like a shadow unfolding

scattered. Priests fell to their knees in fear. And in the corner of it all, Meriya stared with wide,

"No!"

outstretched as if she could hold back the storm. But the air had already shifted. Something enraged and feral had awakened in the

breath hitched. Her hand dropped uselessly at her side. Her lips trembled.

was small, shrinking further

swore it. Before the Moon Goddess,

her or my brothers. Or worse—we did and

rigid, head raised