Elsa From an outsider’s perspective, Adam truly was the embodiment of a monster. The realisation washed over me like a cold, suffocating wave. I could now understand why so many rogues kept attacking our pack—why they risked everything just to get a shot at him. He was the reason they were packless, the cause of so much grief and pain. All those Alphas and Alpha breeds, wolves just like me, who came for us… they were all seeking revenge. The wolves who had tried to kill me in the forest hadn’t just been after me—they’d been after him. Their need for retribution made sense now. Adam wasn’t just a leader; he was a symbol of everything they had lost. Lucas had called him selfish, and I hadn’t understood it then, but now? Now I could see it with brutal clarity. The power, the authority—it

