Chapter 210

• Riley’s POV
• Alaric’s ambition knew no bounds. He didn’t just want my kidneys—he planned to donate my entire body after death, have me laid out on some cold slab as a cadaver for medical students, wrapped in the lie of altruism.
• And the timing was perfect for his performance. That night—Scarlett’s Ascension Banquet—the entire Mooncrest elite was there. Every Alpha, Luna, Beta, and councilman witnessed it firsthand: Alpha Alaric’s “selfless sacrifice.”