Chapter 170

The air in the Alpha Manor was heavy with suspicion.

The great hall had been cleared.

Torches burned along the stone walls, their smoke curling upward like uneasy spirits.

Warriors ringed the room, their growls low and constant, eyes locked on the vampire restrained in chains at the center.

His crimson gaze glowed with fury, but his body remained taut, protective. He leaned toward the young she-wo