Chapter 53 – The Alpha’s Coronation
The moonlight spilled like silver paint over the estate grounds. Lanterns swung gently in the night breeze, casting a warm, flickering glow over the ancient stone pillars. The entire pack had gathered—shifters of all ranks, elders, warriors, children—all dressed in ceremonial black and silver. Tonight was not a funeral. It was a rebirth.
Tonight, Adrian would officially be crowned as Alpha—not the interim leader, not the stand-in for a broken legacy—but the Alpha of Crescent Ridge.
Sophie stood by his side, her hair pinned in soft waves, a sapphire pendant resting over her chest, gifted to her by an Elder earlier that evening.
“You look like a Luna already,” someone had whispered.
She didn’t respond, but the words clung to her.
She wasn’t born to t
