CHAPTER 350 NO EXCEPTIONS

Elora had made many bad decisions in her life, all of which led to a difficult situation from which she barely escaped. But this one unfolded in her presence, and she doubted her life would remain the same. She stood silently at the back of the council room, blending into the shadows as she watched the tense exchange between Claire and Alpha Hudson. She had expected some resistance from the Alpha when Claire would appear in his council meeting, but this—this was a public spectacle, a full-scale confrontation between Alpha and Luna. And she, Elora, had been the one to lead Claire straight into it. ‘What have I done?’ she asked herself, with no answer or sense of reasoning coming forth. Claire and Alpha Hudson faced off, the council’s stares bore down on her, each member a silent witness to the power struggle unfolding before them. Elora saw Kael stunned as well, his eyes never leaving Claire’s, and when they did, it came down on her, shaking his head in pity. She knew it; no one n