I once believed that after the Trial of the Mark, fate might finally spare me.
I was wrong.
Just three days after Rogue Kael and I forged our counter-mark, another storm came for us.
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Omega Rosa wasn’t finished.
She submitted what she claimed was final blood proof—that her child, the “awakened heir,” bore Vincent’s Alpha mark.
But a thousand-year-old wolf sage examined the child… and exposed her lie.
“The symbols in his marrow,” he said gravely, “match those of the eastern Shadow Pack.”
The child was not an heir—he was a legacy of exile.
The pack erupted in outrage. Omega Rosa denied it all, but the truth could not be undone.
She had forged a false heir, conspired with a banished bloodline, and tried to control the future through deception.
“Omega Rosa,” the High Elder declared
