KAI POV
I spent the night after Elara came back from the Summit going through my father's research with new eyes. Everything looked different now. Every note about True Alpha bloodlines. Every warning about Council interest. Every document suddenly had weight because Elara's mother hadn't just been killed. She'd been executed by the same wolves currently threatening Elara and the twins.
The files were extensive. My father had been obsessed, documenting every True Alpha family he could trace back two hundred years. The Reed family appeared multiple times, always with notes about their power, their resistance to authority, their refusal to submit to Council oversight. And beside Eliana Reed's name, my father had written one word in red ink: Eliminated.
Not killed. Not died. Eliminated. Li
