lett

the door completely closin

Alpha

tic, carrying a kind of casual composure, as if nothing

ady told you the basic situat

ear it from y

d chair, casually toying with some object in that languid posture, using this unh

no time to spa

rayed me. He brought back his old lover, who is already pregnant, and he inte

rds from my dry throat: "More seriously, when I woke up this mo

o matter how I called out

e this, but somehow, I had the feeling t

hen came a light laugh with no warmt

sal of the marriage alliance, insi

d before begging for his help, but I

appropriation of pack assets, and several important external treaties signed entirely in my personal name. Those partners only recognize my personal signature, not his official seal. Even if I'm formally stripped of my

all

seemingly random inqu

ed a dangerous undertone,

naked implication-what coul

flared like wil

ith you. If you're treating this serious matter as some

econds, oppressive enough to make me

one noticeably changed, wi

re formidable than that little girl in the forest depth

ond to that obvious

red my father's generous assistance when you needed it most-we both know this debt well. And if I can successfully reclaim Alpha authority and bec

, this one rela

nly, his tone becoming casual as if mentioning some completely trivial daily matte

ithout another word,

creen that had gone black again

were baffling, I

elded absolute influence throughout the northern re

desk and stood up, walking t

ond-land that had once belonged to my

consciousness, I could feel a faint response, as

gun, and I had already fo

time for me to t