Chapter 123

• Kael’s Pov
• The patrol’s message came in sharp and quick, just as the sun began its slow descent, staining the horizon in shades of crimson and gold. The words they spoke were grave, delivered with the kind of hesitance only warriors bore when carrying news of death. They’d ransacked Ironclaw and found the lifeless bodies of Darius and his father, Alpha Xerves.
• For a long, cold moment, I stood there, unmoving. Not because their deaths were entirely unexpected,npower struggles often left trails of blood but because the sheer weight of it pressed against the air, suffocating. Xerves was ruthless but strategic; a man like him rarely fell without a reason. His death whispered of betrayal.