Chapter 83
Annalise
I wished it were that simple between us. If it were just about the past—about the way they tormented me, pushed me, made me hate them—maybe I could have let it go. Maybe I could have started over, especially now that I knew they were my mates.
But things were no longer that simple.
Because now I held knowledge—dangerous knowledge.
I knew what they didn’t. That they weren’t just my mates. They were my enemies.
That this wasn’t just a game of push and pull, of dominance and resistance. It was a battle for survival.
One day, they would learn the truth. That I was Azweir’s heir. That the power running through their veins—the power that made them more than just Alphas—rightfully belonged to me.
And when that day came, they would not choose me.
They would choose powe
