“...Would you really die for me?”
The moment the recording echoed through the werewolf council hall, silence fell like a blade.
Luna Chloe’s voice, trembling with fake sobs at first, soon turned sharp and icy:
“Erase Emily’s name from the medical records. Put mine instead. Lucien has to live. You know what I mean.”
I sat at the head of the chamber, calm as still water, letting the whispers swell like a rising tide.
“She forged the records—”
“Dr. Jason’s her father…”
Alpha Ethan stood below the dais, paper clenched in his fist, face ashen.
I walked down the steps and placed the USB drive in his hand.
“Play it yourself.”
He looked down, voice hoarse. “How did you even get this…”
“Because you never bothered to look,” I said quietly. “She told you who to let die, and you didn’t even
