Chapter 40: Indiscretions
Kael’s POV:
The sun had barely risen when I received the urgent message from my intel. The words scrawled on the parchment were enough to make my blood run cold: “Aria is alive. I’ve seen her face to face.”
I crushed the note in my fist, my mind racing. Aria, the girl I had once loved and betrayed, had somehow survived the attack I had orchestrated. She was a threat to everything I had built. She had to be dealt with—again.
I strode through the castle hills, my steps echoing ominously. The scent of power and fear clung to the air, a testament to the grip I held over the Blood Moon Pack. But now, that grip was being threatened.
As I reached my chambers, my mind replayed the message over and over. Aria’s survival complicated everything. If she had allies, sh
