Moonlight kissed the stone walls of the Alpha's quarters, but the air inside was far from serene.
"You think your crown makes you clean?" she spat. “You touched what belongs to someone,Alpha. You’ve brought rot into this Pack.”
Alpha Raya stood motionless—her poise statuesque, her expression unreadable. The broken mirror behind her glittered in pieces across the floor like stars spilled from a violent sky.
"Speak carefully," Raya said, voice low, freezing. "You were never permitted into this room. And certainly not to insult your Queen."
The lady laughed bitterly. “You call yourself Queen? A true Alpha doesn’t get tainted by creatures from the woods,she doesn’t take what’s not hers.”
Raya's eyes narrowed, a storm behind them. “Your words mean little to a wolf who couldn’t even hold a
