Sweat beaded on the lead elder's brow, his grizzled face paling as Kade's silver gaze pinned him like a wolf's killing stare, the air humming with the pack's primal hierarchy bending to one unbreakable will. "Alpha, mercy.. we came as loyal...." he stammered, voice cracking under the weight, but Kade's lip curled in disgust, a low growl rumbling from his chest that vibrated through the stone floor, forcing knees to quiver.
One visiting Alpha, river-mud scent souring with fear, dared a half-step back, chains clinking faintly. "The whispers... they spread from the servants, not us!" But Kade's presence expanded like a gathering thunderhead, suffocating defiance, his fist clenching audibly as the first threads of names surfaced in their frantic eyes, traitors unmasked, their fragile web shredding before the Royal Alpha's inexorable judgment.
