Chapter210:Duty and Claims

|| Alaric's POV || The war room was too quiet. Maps of the borderlands lay scattered across the table, marked with red ink where rogue attacks had been reported. The scent of ink and burning candle wax clung to the air, thick with tension. My fingers traced the edge of the parchment, the paper rough beneath my touch. Everything was falling apart. Coco was missing. Lilac's memories were still gone. Her wolf, Runa, had vanished without a trace. And Aurora- My jaw clenched. The eerie violet glow around my daughter had intensified, pulsing like a second heartbeat beneath her skin. Endora had done what she could, but even her magic had limits. And now the border was in chaos. Alexander and Ezra had already gone back there, along with a handful of loyal alphas. Reports had come in just this morning -rogues moving in coordinated attacks, striking under the cover of darkness, then vanishing before retaliation could be made. I should have been there. My people were fighting. Dying. And I was he