SELENE’S POV Power has a sound when it breaks, It isn’t loud, it isn’t dramatic. It is the sound of certainty shattering. None of can could even say that we had seen this coming, I don’t even think Dante expected our vindication to come this soon, I mean meeting with the other alphas was obviously something that we would have had to do at some point but not this soon. However having them here made everything very easy for us even though that was not what the council intended. The chamber had not recovered from the third elder’s confession. The air still trembled with it — outrage, disbelief, shifting alliances. The Alphas were speaking over one another now. Accusations. Demands. Oaths being called into question. The council was no longer elevated. They were exposed. And exposed creatures

