Chapter178:Alpha's Curse

|| Lilac’s POV || The morning light filtered through the sheer curtains of Alaric's study, painting golden stripes across the hardwood floor. I stood by the window, watching the distant figures of warriors training in the courtyard below, their shouts muffled through the glass. My fingers traced idle patterns on the sill, my mind racing with questions that had haunted me for the entire night. Alaric came back late and was gone when I woke up. Finally I found him here. Alaric leaned against his desk, his massive frame silhouetted by the sunlight at his back. He'd been quiet since the alpha king visited us. Too quiet. I turned to face him. "Alaric," I said, my voice steady despite the storm in my chest. "Be truthful. Why don't you want to be king?" He didn't look up from the papers he was pretending to read. "Because I want to live in peace with my Luna." A practiced answer. Too smooth. Too easy. “Is that all?” I asked. “Yeah,” he didn't even look up. I crossed the room in three strides,