Chapter 97 – The Alpha Who Starts Losing Ground
POV: Kael
I had always believed that leadership became easier with experience.
When I was younger, I assumed the difficult part was surviving long enough to become Alpha. Once you earned the title, once you proved your strength, once the pack accepted your authority, everything else was supposed to fall into place.
Years later, I knew better.
Leadership never became easier.
The problems simply changed.
The enemies changed.
And sometimes the most dangerous threats weren't enemies at all.
They were your own people.
That realization had been growing quietly for weeks.
At first, I ignored it.
The fortress had been under enormous pressure ever since Liora's awakening. People were confused. Rumors spread quickly. Questions multiplied faster than answers. Given everything that had happened, some uncertainty was inevitable.
That was what I told myself.
Unfortunately, uncertainty had begun transforming into something else.
