The moment we reached the main hall, voices rose in alarm, bouncing off the walls like a warning bell.
“Alpha Darius! You cannot take her!” Beta Richard’s voice boomed, his posture rigid with both fear and duty. His gaze darted between me—weak in Darius’s arms—and the towering figure of his own alpha behind him.
Darius’s growl reverberated through his chest and into me, low and menacing.
“Stand aside.” His command rolled like thunder, laced with pure alpha authority. The walls seemed to hum with it, the air crackling as wolves in the hall lowered their heads under its weight.
“She belongs to this pack. You can’t just take her!” Alpha Efrein’s voice rang out, cold and clipped, his eyes hard as stone.
“She belongs to no one,” Darius cut in, his voice sharp as steel, each word slicing th
