Her look was calm, huge, like someone who had already carried the weight of that decision across a long, frozen plain. “I want what he did to end. I want him not to stand again to hurt another wolf. If killing him is the quickest, cleanest way to stop him - yes. I want him dead.”
There was a heartbreak in the room then, raw and honest. It was not just about three brothers; it was about every woman he’d shoved into corners, every pup he’d taught to fear. It was about Evelynn redistributing the scale of a man’s cruelty. It made the plan not just military but moral.
The Alpha in me and the part that protects by calculation - set my jaw. “We do it at dawn. We will not take civilians. We will not torch the place down to the roots. This is a surgical strike. We bring him down, claim his lands,
