Chapter 60
Third POV
PART TWO
Silence did not simply fall over the room— it crushed it.
Every Alpha froze.
Every aura sharpened to a blade’s edge.
The weight of a dozen predatory gazes turned on Gabriella at once.
Tristan moved the moment their shock began to shift toward aggression, stepping in front of her with a low, warning growl vibrating out of his chest.
“Enough.”
But Varyn’s eyes were already narrowing. “You’re saying the plague is tracking her?”
“It’s not the plague,” Leo corrected, stepping forward. “It’s the thing commanding it.”
Seris slammed her palm on the table. “Then why is she here? Why bring her to a council if we’re all now targets?”
That hit Tristan wrong. His aura surged in a brutal wave—iron, storm, Alpha dominance that made the table groan.
“She is not t
