Damien
Most people thought stepping down from an Alpha heir position was like stepping off a throne. They imagined it with honor. With final words. With a pat on the back and a peaceful walk into something nobler.
That’s not how it happened.
It’s like a total royal abdication.
I didn’t walk out of my father’s house.
I was thrown out.
I still remember the way the silence fell after I said the words.
“I renounce my claim to the Alpha title.”
Simple. Quiet. Final.
And the silence that followed?
It wasn’t stunned. It was furious.
My father didn’t yell. He didn’t even raise his voice. He just looked at me with this cold disappointment I hadn’t seen since I was fifteen and refused to break another kid’s nose in a sparring match. He said, “Then get out.”
And that was it.
I didn’t pac
