Chapter 192

• Rose's POV
• My heart hammered wildly in my chest as my mate’s father, Alpha King Armon, said those things—his gaze fixed on me in a way that felt deliberate, assessing. Not rushed. Not angry. It was the kind of look a predator gives its prey when it knows there is no escape, when the outcome has already been decided. The air felt thinner with every second that passed, each breath scraping my lungs, and I was certain my life could be snuffed out at any moment.
• Then, just as abruptly, his expression shifted. The weight in his stare vanished. His shoulders straightened, his features smoothing into something cool and unreadable, as though that silent threat had never existed at all. As if he hadn’t just stood there measuring how easily I could be destroyed.