Shattered Sanctuary

ROWAN’S POV

The Council of Ancients exists because power unchecked becomes tyranny.

I’ve learned this in the past eighteen hours, piecing together information from Cleo’s whispered explanations and Vance’s terse answers.

Centuries ago, a Lycan King went mad with power and nearly drove our species to extinction.

The survivors built institutional restraints. Rules. A council that could file formal c