The Lycan Court was a fortress of ice, iron, and absolute loyalty to the King. I knew from my past life that I could not breach Alaric’s defenses directly. He was too guarded, too poisoned by Cassius’s lies, and too entrenched in his own isolation.
So, I decided to dismantle his walls instead.
The most careful, deliberate piece of my work was on Knox.
As the King’s Beta and shadow, Knox was the load-bearing pillar of Alaric’s court. At the start, he openly despised me.To Knox, I was a social-climbing w***e, a manipulative breeder who had infiltrated the royal sanctuary. If I tried to win him over with kindness or charm, he would see it as exactly what Cassius claimed I was: a seductress working an angle.
So, I worked on him with the smallest, most invisible tools I had.
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