---- 50.


    ON THE BRINK OF CONFLICT NARRATOR "alpha, they definitely harmed Verak!" Gertrudis started twisting the situation; she was going all in, mask off, against Drakkar and that bitch.


    What the hell are you talking about?! Drakkar! Where is my son?! SAY SOMETHING, DAMN IT!" "Alpha, no one knows anything, and what she says isnt true..." Lorenzo stood up to the healer, frowning.


    Everyone was ready to defend Lyra and Drakkar.


    "They rescued Nana and helped us escape..." "That cant be!" the old woman snapped, raising her staff, her face twisted with malice.


    "You''re all just under Drakkars spell!" "Mom..." suddenly, Nana''s whispering voice broke the tension, and a trembling hand grabbed Gertrudiss skirt. "Daughter!" the healer bent down to hug her; she felt Nanas deep pain.


    Her she-wolf tried to reconnect with her little pup, their bond fading but not yet broken.


    ---- "Nana..." she looked into her daughters vacant eyesthose eyes that just days ago were full of life and dreams for the future.


    "They...


    saved me...


    Drakkar and Lyra, Withbored breath, Nana said it.


    Her voice was barely audible, but everyone heard her. "T...


    was the Alphas sons mate...


    he made a deal with Verak...


    he handed me over to that man who...


    who abused me and locked me up..." Her throat felt like sandpaper, but Nana forced herself to tell the lieced with truth.


    She wanted to cry, but there were no tears left to shed.


    "Then they fought over... something stolen from Drakkar...


    the Alpha Killed Verak, and Verak...


    stabbed him before he died..." "NooOO!"" The Alphas roar shook everyone''s mind.


    He hadnt sensed his sons death from so far away, but now he understood the pain that had tormented him thesest days.


    Veraks sister copsed to the ground, sobbing.


    Her mother had died, and now her brother too.