121. Athena
Wait…
Was this me?
I wasn’t scared anymore. The tremor that had seized me when we first walked into the council hall had vanished, replaced by a strange calm I hadn’t expected. It felt foreign but welcome, like an was armor slowly forming around me. I wasn’t the same person who had once cowered in the face of Alpha Javier’s wrath.
He stood a few paces away, his presence as suffocating as ever, but this time, I felt no urge to shrink beneath it. His jaw clenched, his eyes burning with a dangerous mixture of anger and desperation. Still, I met his gaze head-on.
For the first time since I met Javier, I was happy that he could never hold his emotions well, especially his anger. It was working well for me in this situation since everyone would see what kind of a man he was.
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