Tiara POV
I sat stiffly on the velvet couch, my hands clutched together in my lap, eyes locked on the marble floor of Alpha Nicholas’s chamber. The space felt too quiet, too clean, intimidatingly pristine. It was my first time stepping into his private quarters, and every corner of the room whispered of power and control.
I could feel eyes on me. His pack members stood by the door, not hostile, but strangely kind. Far kinder than those from my own pack. A painful ache spread in my chest. How had it come to this? How had things gone so horribly wrong that even my own father could not bear to look at me anymore?
The soft click of boots echoed down the hall.
I raised my head slowly at the sound, only to see him enter.
Alpha Nicholas.
He stood tall, regal, his presence instantly consumin
