DANTE’S POV
For a moment just a moment I thought we had miscalculated. I thought maybe we had been a little too confident in the alphas hearing us out and believing us. The Alphas were watching. The guards were uncertain, and that should have been enough to convince me that we were on the right track but something didn’t feel right. It didn’t feel like the wheels were turning in our favor.
The council was cornered, I had them right where I had wanted them and yet— they did not crumble. Not in the way I had expected them to, it was almost as if they had a back up plan, a way to get themselves out of this situation.
The first elder straightened slowly, smoothing invisible creases from his robe as though this were all beneath him.
“Bold accusations,” he said calmly. “But accusations nonet
