I was now on the top floor of the Miller Pack Citadel, standing within the Alpha’s Sanctum.
Andrew sat at the head of the obsidian table, his face a defeated gray, his eyes crisscrossed with angry red veins. His wolf was whimpering his mind, a low, defeated sound that signaled the end of his dominance.
My eyes darted to the document resting on the table in front of him.
Application for Tribal Asset Forfeiture.
I looked at Andrew, and the truth, raw and brutal, smashed me in the face. He was utterly ruined, completely stripped of his Alpha–blood p He hadn’t just failed to save the Miller clan; he’d personally doomed us, plunging our entire territory into utter ruin.
so much
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Gavin sat slumped on the furs across from Andrew, looking even more utterly broken. His hair, once dark, was now streaked with looked almost white, and his tunic was a rumpled, creased mess. He looked like he’d aged fifteen years overnight–his scent was that of a mang on the
verge of madness.
“The Miller family cannot fall! This is everything I’ve poured my life into!”
Andrew had tried everything, exhausted every desperate avenue of pack diplomacy. I knew it, and with a crushing certainty, nothing could save Miller name now. My wolf didn’t feel pity; she only felt the cold satisfaction of a debt being repaid.
He leaned back, defeat etched into every line of his powerful frame.“Dad,” he said, his voice raw, The Miller family is finished.”
*
“It can’t go bankrupt!” Gavin roared, his eyes bloodshot, probably gleaming with a desperate, frantic hope of an Alpha who refused to step down. V can go to Isabella! She’s a Miller, she can’t just abandon her pack!”
“Isabella Miller?”
When Gavin uttered my name, Andrew lifted his head, a storm of complicated emotions brewing in his eyes as he looked at his father.
Even now, at this point of utter desperation, he was still considering reaching out to the mate he had once cast aside? To the daughter they had treated like an Omega?
What right did he have?
Maybe, once upon a time, I would have helped. But after the Severing of the Blood Bond, after everything that had happened, there was no chance. Yet Gavin, as if possessed by some desperate madness, pulled out his Psychic Relay Stone, ready to call me.
“I’ll give her the Miller name. I’ll give her all my ancestral blood–shares!”
But before he could even dial the link, the sanctum door swung open.
A group of warriors in sharp black tunics, their faces grim and unyielding like the stone of the mountains, stepped into the room first. Leading them was Faye, my most trusted Beta.
Faye strode to the center of the sanctum. Her eyes swept across the room, taking in the scent of failure, before finally settling on Gavin
I saw Gavin’s gaze snap to Faye, and he immediately shot to his feet, lunging toward her with a feral snarl “Where’s Isabella? I need to see Isabella!”
He lunged towards Faye, but two bodyguards stepped in, blocking him instantly with their massive, shifting frames.
Faye simply placed a hide–document on the obsidian table.
“From this moment forward, all blood–debts owed by the Miller Group, along with the fifty–one percent of ancestral shares currently in your possession, are fully assumed by my boss, Ms. Isabella Miller
“Which mears, the Miller Group now belongs to the Millers
Faye paused, then added, her voice unwavering as the North Star Isabella Miller’s Miller
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y red veins. His wolf was whimpering in the back of
ck by an Alpha’s command.
ence between the Miller family’s Miller and Isabella Miller’s Miller? It’s still our Mill
will cease to exist. From now on, there will only be the Fire–Bane Commerce Division Ral Division…”
ther, turning ashen. My wolf stood tall, watching through the scrying link as his life’s
mpletely stripped of his Alpha–blood prestigede itory into utter ruin.
trying to grab Faye. It felt like he wasn’t just reaching for her, but desperately trying to
speranon.“She can’t do this! I’ll petition the Pack Council! No matter how much she doesn s to do this…”
e dark, was now streaked with so much gray it gray if rs overnight–his scent was that of a mangy rogue rogue
ith a crushing certainty, nothing could save theave the repaid.
The Miller family is finished.“shed”
hope of an Alpha who refused to step dower down.“We
in his eyes as he looked at his father father
d once cast aside? To the daughter tight they had treated
thing that had happened, plecrewthere was no chance.
dy to call me.
untains, stepped imo hero che room first.
re, beton, finally silly sorting on Gavin.
feral anari saar!
e, abiting meraukes
prendeten of ancestral shares currently in your
of a Beta who had no sympathy for a failing Alpha–and methodically pried his fingers awa
ed to give you a message.”
ure of pack piety. But watching him, I knew that wasn’t what he heard. Instead, a shiver ra t behind the words.
to bolt out of the office and escape the territory.
ced ease, injected him with a dose of Silver–Nano Spirits through a ritual silver needle.
e needle’s tip, flowed into Gavin’s veins. My wolf let out a sharp, expectant bark in my
pain.
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