Chapter 072
Lucian's POV
The old stone hall was awfully silent except for faraway shuffles of feet and subdued mutterings from the Alphas. The tension in their eyes was palpable, akin to the weight of an impending storm. My hands were on the cold, rough stone of the table, and I sighed slowly, trying to calm my racing heart. Every word uttered in this room was bursting with the weight of centuries; every decision made here would echo for generations.
“This, Lucian, we need to talk about.”
I could hear the deep growl of a voice coming at me from the far end of the room. I looked at the speaker, the Alpha of Blackpine. His face was stone hard and his eyes were keen, but I saw fear there that I had not seen before. That same fear twinkled in the eyes of the others.
The tension was palpab
