The Alpha Supreme’s convoy reached Silverbrook shortly before sunset.

Three armored vehicles passed through the outer gates beneath the watch of hundreds of gathered wolves. Blackwood guards rode on motorcycles beside them, their uniforms marked with the silver cre

The castle settled into uneasy silence after midnight.

Guards patrolled every corridor. Axel’s soldiers controlled the entrances, the infirmary records, and the servants’ wing. Silverbrook’s council elders had been confined to their residences until questioning began.

The hidden door opened with the grinding roar of stone dragged across stone.

Blinding moonlight poured from the chamber beyond, though Harper knew they were buried deep beneath the old Silverbrook chapel. The light was too pure and too cold to have come from the sk