Chapter 316
Chapter 316:
“The Rogue broke after ten minutes with the interrogators,” Vance said, his voice tight. “He was hired through a shell company, but the money trail leads back to one person. Katherine Parrish. She had a personal offshore account — one her family’s creditors haven’t touched. She used her own hidden funds for this p>
My breath hitched. Katherine. The Alpha female who had sneered at me at the Gala, the woman who believed she was destined to be Braydon’s Luna.
“She did this because of a rivalry?” I asked, disbelief coloring my tone. “Because she thinks I stole her place in the Hyde Pack p>
“Her family is bankrupt,” Vance confirmed. “But she’d been siphoning money into a private account for years — enough to hire one assassin, and to ensure he used silver p>
The temperature in the room dropped ten degrees. Dallas turned back to the window, staring out into the darkness. “Vance, ready the legions p>
“Shall I draft a declaration of war, Alpha King p>
“No,” Dallas said softly, and the calmness of his tone was more terrifying than any roar. “War implies a conflict between two equal sides. This will be an execution. I am going to erase the Parrish Pack from the map p>
Before I could process the sheer brutality of that statement, Dallas stiffened. His eyes glazed over — a sign he was receiving an urgent mind-link. A moment later, the color drained from his face, replaced not by fear but by sheer disgust.
J𝗈𝗶ո 𝗼𝘶𝗋 с𝘰𝗆𝗺𝘂𝘯i𝘵у 𝗼n ѕ.со𝗆
“Put it on the screen,” Dallas ordered.
Vance tapped his tablet, casting the feed onto the wall monitor. It was a news alert from the Council of Alphas’ secure network. Files were leaking. Thousands of them.
“It’s Braydon,” Dallas growled, his lip curling. “The fool is committing suicide p>
“What is he doing?” I sat up, ignoring the pain stabbing through my ribs.
“He’s leaking everything,” Vance explained, scrolling through the data stream. “Evidence of the Hyde family’s illegal silver trading. Secret pacts with Rogues to destabilize neighboring territories. He’s not just exposing his family — he’s implicating the Parrish Pack in the silver deals. He’s destroying both houses p>
I felt sick. Braydon wasn’t doing this for justice.
“He’s doing it for me,” I whispered, the realization tasting like bile. “He wants me to see this. He wants to show me he would burn his world down just to avenge me p>
It wasn’t love. It was a chain — a twisted, bloody chain he was trying to wrap around my throat so I would owe him forever.
Suddenly, a commotion erupted in the hallway. The heavy doors burst open and two figures stumbled past the protesting guards.
Alpha Marcus and Luna Victoria Hyde.
They looked like ghosts of their former selves. Victoria’s elegant dress was rumpled, her face streaked with mascara. Marcus looked aged by a decade in a single night.
“Get them out,” Dallas barked, stepping between me and them — a wall of muscle and lethal intent.
“Please!” Victoria ignored him, throwing herself onto her knees at the foot of my bed. “Adella, you have to stop him. Braydon has lost his mind p>