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CHAPTER 311
~Dristan's POV~
Alpha Alexander chuckled, and the sound came off low and cruel. "Bold little cubs," he muttered. His cold eyes settled on me. "Valerie?"
I said nothing. My fists clenched at my sides, nails biting into my palm. The rise and fall of my chest must have given me away, because the others stilled too.
"You think I and the other Alpha Kings don't know about your little whorish mate?" my father sneered.
"She's no—" I barely got the words out before my father's Alpha aura slammed into the room like a tidal wave.
It crushed at my chest first, then my knees. The others lowered their eyes instinctively, shoulders buckling against the weight of it.
"Know your place, mutt!" Dad snapped. "Without me, without my title and rank, you are nothing. When I speak, remember who it is you're talking to."
The walls vibrated. The silence in the study became deafening.