“I should’ve known,” I muttered, fingers curling into fists as I stared at the man before me—Lior, Elias’s Beta.
He didn’t flinch. Not even a twitch in his jaw. Just a cold, calculating calm that made my stomach churn. “You always looked at me like I was the outsider,” he said. “Guess I decided to become one.”
Elias stood a few feet behind me. Silent. Watching. His aura was unreadable, his loyalty torn between the woman he claimed to love and the man who had been by his side through every war, every battle… until now.
“You sold us out to Magnus,” I said. “My pack. Elias’s people. Me.”
Lior shrugged. “I gave him information. That’s all.”
“You nearly got people killed!”
“Because I believed he could do what Elias refuses to,” Lior snapped. “Crush the lesser packs and build a new era of
