"The Alpha heir's voice rang out across the festival."
The final note of the haunting melody faded into the night air, leaving a silence so complete it felt like the entire world was holding its breath. I expected the crowd to resume their festival celebrations—the laughter, the animated conversations, the gentle mockery that always followed traditional dances. Instead, the hush deepened with an intensity that made my enhanced senses prickle with awareness.
Every eye in the courtyard remained fixed on us in the ethereal moonlight, hundreds of supernatural beings waiting for something they couldn't name but instinctively recognized as significant.
And then Darius spoke, his words carrying across the festival grounds with the kind of resonance that belonged to formal declarations rather t
