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That was the first confession that shattered the hall that day. In the center of it all, before thousands, she dropped to her knees and begged.

but “The envoy of peace everyone knows me as… it wasn’t a complete lie. I was an envoy, between here and the Demon Realm. I delivered sealed letters back and forth, never realizing they were written to stir war already agreed upon. When the mission ended, the Council ordered me to lay low for years, to make my mission of peace believable. With no funds left to support myself, I turned to an ugly solution. Their last order was to kill Varyn Ashmere. But I didn’t. Instead, I sold him to Blackwater, bartered his body for my comfort these past five years.”

It was done. The awe flooding the Wolf Fortress was palpable. She confessed without hesitation. I had expected her to twist, to deceive, to cling to cunning, but no. She was surrendering.

“After

my return, I not only sought to usurp Luna Tahlia’s place, I threw myself into her husband’s bed, the late Alpha Black.”