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.

any fear. Like we were nothing. Like our rules—our authority—meant

How dare she?

to the surface, a violent surge of fury and disbelief crashing into my chest. My bones ached with the need to shift,

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

defied us..." I

"I’ll drag her back myself. She doesn’t

I turned toward

this was her

Escape.

everything we’d built. Everything

she’s beyond the

glowing gold. "And when

hesitate. "We’re bringing her back." No matter

through his skin. Black fur exploded from his limbs. The pain was welcome as

the hall as his brothers also shifted beside him, each of them trembling with

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

radiating fury. The nobles scattered. Priests fell to their knees in fear.

"No!"

Her silk-clad body lurched forward, arms outstretched as if she could hold back the storm. But

breath hitched. Her hand dropped uselessly at her side.

was small, shrinking further

between them. "You swore it. Before the Moon Goddess, before the court, before every soul in this hall... You

my brothers. Or

rigid, head raised to