Chapter 55 Punishment Is An Art

• Lady Seraphina’s POV
• Cruelty doesn’t always need blood. Silence, absence, erasure—those leave deeper scars. And Lyra, the little Omega who had overstepped, was about to learn.
• When the council dissolved after declaring Suzanne guilty, the chamber buzzed like a disturbed hive. No one dared speak too loud. Alpha Kieran stood at the center, his silence iron-tight. When he finally turned, it was not to Suzanne, nor the nobles, but to me.