Chapter 548 - CHAPTER 547 — The Brother’s Promise

The western balcony of Regina Royal Estate overlooked King's Avenue, where the late-morning sun shone upon the pale stone buildings and the dark roofs of a city that had begun to fear its own silence. At eleven forty-five, Alessandro De Luca stood beside the balustrade with one hand resting against the cold marble, his attention fixed upon the distant northern hills, though the faint tension in his jaw betrayed how little he could truly see beyond his own troubled thoughts. The Alpha bond that had once connected him to every wolf beneath his authority remained stubbornly silent, leaving him with the unfamiliar knowledge that a title could survive even when the power behind it had begun to fail. Behind him, the balcony doors opened, and the measured footsteps that followed belonged to the one man whose presence could still awaken a greater unease in him than the loss of his supernatural strength.