Chapter 470\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kael\u2019s POV\u00a0<\/p>\n
The rain didn\u2019t stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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It came down like a curse from the Moon Goddess herself-cold, relentless, and unforgiving.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019d been kneeling outside the Duskgrave estate for what felt like a lifetime. In truth, it had only been two hours, but every minute in that storm felt like a blade slicing through my spine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My knees were numb. My fingers too stiff to curl. My wolf was silent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And my heart? Shattered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t here to make a scene. I wasn\u2019t here to beg for pity. I was here because I\u2019d wronged her- Riley. My little sister. My blood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My adopted sister offended my biological sister, and I want to ask for her forgiveness. Riley has always been easy to coax. As long as I am a little gentler to her, she will do exactly what I say. But I don\u2019t know why this time, she seems really heartbroken.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I deserved the pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was the only thing that made sense anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The downpour blurred everything-my vision, my thoughts, my pride.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t remember falling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One second I was kneeling\u2026 the next, the world tilted sideways. Cold water rushed up to meet me, soaking into my clothes and lungs. Then, black.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When I came to, it wasn\u2019t the rain I felt-it was heat. Clean, dry, suffocating heat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hospital lights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I blinked against the brightness, my throat burning, my body aching in places I didn\u2019t know could ache. My limbs felt like they were made of lead. The IV line tugged slightly as I shifted, and a dull beep rang from some monitor nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then, my phone rang.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A shrill buzz that cut through my skull like claws on stone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I fumbled for it, pressed it to my ear, my voice a rasp. \u201cHello\u2026?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cAlpha Kael! Finally! Where the hell have you been?! I\u2019ve been calling all night!\u201d It was Luca-my assistant, his voice cracking under pressure. \u201cYou need to get to the company. Now. It\u2019s\u2026 it\u2019s over. The company-Vale Industries-it\u2019s gone. We\u2019re bankrupt.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I bolted upright. Pain ricocheted through my skull, but I didn\u2019t care. \u201cWhat did you just say?!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI-I said we\u2019re finished! The board\u2019s in chaos, the banks froze our assets, the media\u2019s already outside. We\u2019re under investigation for tax fraud. And Alpha\u2026\u201d His voice dropped, trembling. \u201cThe council has been alerted.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I stared blankly at the white walls around me. \u201cImpossible. We were fine yesterday. We just signed off on the new trade route with the Blackmaw border fleet. There\u2019s no way we could\u2019ve collapsed overnight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But deep down, I knew that wasn\u2019t true.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The truth?\u00a0<\/p>\n
We\u2019d been bleeding for months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Debt. Corruption. False reports. The fa\u00e7ade I helped build to keep the pack\u2019s reputation intact was crumbling-because of me. Because I was too arrogant to admit that Riley had seen it all first. That her warnings weren\u2019t paranoia\u2026 they were prophecy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lucien.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My teeth ground together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stormridge\u2019s infamous Alpha. Riley\u2019s so-called savior.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019d done this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He must\u2019ve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No one else had the power-or the motive-to tear down Ebonclaw\u2019s pride in a single night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I ripped the IV from my arm, blood dripping down my wrist. The nurse outside shouted something, but I was already pulling on my coat. Hospital gown still clinging to me like shame, I didn\u2019t care.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I had to see it for myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ride to the company was a blur. The streets still slick with rain, the sky a murky gray like it hadn\u2019t yet decided whether to give me a second chance or bury me for good.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When I arrived at the Vale Industries tower, it wasn\u2019t the chaos that got me-it was the silence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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No lights on. No staff rushing through the doors. Just cold wind and wet concrete.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And the cops.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Three enforcers from the Lunar Tribunal stood at the front gate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of them stepped forward. \u201cAlpha Kael Vale?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I squared my shoulders. \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cVale Industries is under investigation for severe tax violations and regulatory fraud,\u201d the wolf said. \u201cYou are listed as the registered Alpha-owner and legal representative. You\u2019ll need to come with us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
His words didn\u2019t land right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Registered Alpha-owner?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Legal representative?\u00a0<\/p>\n
That wasn\u2019t possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I was never made the formal head of the company. My father was the founder. The true Alpha of Ebonclaw\u2019s financial arm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I was just the heir. The name on the documents\u2026 was never supposed to be mine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat the hell do you mean I\u2019m the legal representative?\u201d I snapped. \u201cThat\u2019s impossible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But even as I said it, pieces were falling into place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The day Father left for the Western Territories.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The emergency documents he pushed in front of me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJust sign it, Kael. We need a name to secure the deal before the council interferes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I signed it without reading it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I thought it was temporary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I thought I was just holding the reins until he came back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My own damn name.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And Goddess\u2026 what if this was always the plan?\u00a0<\/p>\n
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What if my father never intended to come back?\u00a0<\/p>\n
What if I\u2019d been made a scapegoat from the beginning?\u00a0<\/p>\n
The enforcers moved in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t resist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was nothing left to fight for.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Only one face haunted me now-Riley\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My little sister.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The one I locked away. The one I called a traitor. The one I beat and betrayed to protect a lie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She once warned me to be cautious after learning about it-being the legal representative of a company is no easy task. But I brushed it off as her showing off some petty tricks in front of me. I didn\u2019t listen to her. In fact, I coldly warned her to mind her own business.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t listen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now the world was burning, and I was the fool kneeling in its ashes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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