Chapter 6 - The Alpha’s Reckoning
The white wolf did not glance at Jacob. Her violet eyes locked onto Malakor, the leader of the invaders who had threatened her child and her home.
Malakor growled, shifting into a massive gray wolf covered in jagged scars. He lunged at Reena with a vicious, neck-snapping bite.
Reena met his attack head-on. She did not fight with wild rage; she fought with absolute grace and calculated brilliance. She ducked under Malakor’s heavy shadow strike, swiping her claws across his flank. Lightning sparks left from her paws—a remnant of Samuel’s power integrated into her own spirit—shocking Malakor’s wolf system.
Malakor roared in pain as electrical energy paralyzed his muscles. Reena pinned the giant gray wolf to the polished marble floor, her fangs hovering inches from his throat.
“Yield!” Jacob’s royal Alpha command echoed through the hall.
Malakor, paralyzed and defeated by the legendary white wolf, whimpered and shifted back into human form, raising his hands in surrender. Seeing their commander fallen, the remaining rogues threw down their weapons, surrendering to the royal guards.
The battle for the palace was won.
Reena stood over the defeated rogues, her white fur shimmering under the hallway torches. She looked over at Jacob.
The Alpha King dropped his bloody sword. He stepped toward her slowly, his eyes filled with a mixture of reverence, shock, and profound guilt.
“Reena... your wolf... it woke up,” Jacob stammered, tears glistening in his dark eyes. “You were never wolfless. You were an ancient Lunar White...”
Reena let out a quiet sigh. Her white wolf body began to glow with soft golden light, shrinking back down until she stood on the marble floor in her human form. Her clothes were torn, her hair was wild, but her skin radiated health and power. The deadly dark veins from the binding spell were completely gone.
Without a word, she turned around and began walking back toward the vault.
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“Reena, wait!” Jacob called out, rushing after her. He caught her by the wrist, but he immediately let go when she looked back at him with cool, distant eyes. “Please... let me explain.”
“My son is in the vault,” Reena said coldly, her voice laced with an effortless authority that made even Jacob’s wolf bow slightly. “I am going to get him.”
