Chapter 81: Silver's Price (Ramon's POV) My hands trembled as I reread the latest territory report for the third time, hoping against hope that I’d misinterpreted something, that the gravity of the situation wasn’t as catastrophic as it seemed. The Ward Pack. The entirety of their leadership. Their businesses. Their warriors. All of it—gone overnight. The mansion—a symbol of Derek Ward’s iron-fisted rule in the Eastern Territories—now stood as a hollow monument to their abrupt disappearance. The report was chilling in its simplicity. No bodies. No signs of struggle. No public declarations. Just silence, a void where one of the most prominent packs had stood for decades. Derek Ward’s domination of the Eastern Territories had been undisputed. Packs had bent their knees to him. His name

